Understanding the increasing market demand and envisioning security as the Next Big Thing for the Internet, Qihoo 360 launched 360 Safe Guard in 2006, a comprehensive Internet security solution covering system protection, privacy protection and performance optimization.

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Ken Silva, the security chief at VeriSign, which runs big chunks of the internet's domain-name system, advocates defences at the core of the network to tackle malicious data-packets before they reach their target.

ECONOMIST: Cyberwarfare

On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already developed an exploit that could take over a Window 8 machine running Internet Explorer 10, in spite of the many significant security upgrades Microsoft built into the latest version of its operating system.

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