Symantec is expanding its focus from securing devices to protecting information, the company said at an event in New York.

Dubbed 'Security 2.0', the new initiative will seek to restore consumer confidence in online transactions while allowing enterprises to further expand their online commerce initiatives without compromising their security.

Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced product integration that combines its product's source code security assessment results with findings from Cenzic? Hailstorm?, SPI Dynamics? WebInspect?, and Watchfire? AppScan?. Advancements in Ounce's open architecture enable customers now to import results directly from their existing penetration testing tools to achieve a higher level of insight into the security of their software.

Radware and Forum Systems today announced that the companies are engaged in joint development of an integrated application-smart networking solution aimed at ensuring the fast and secure delivery of XML-based Web services running on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The joint solution integrates XML acceleration and security features from Forum Systems with Radware's AppXcel application accelerator appliance.

SPI Labs has discovered a practical method of using JavaScript to detect the search queries a user has entered into arbitrary search engines. All the code needed to steal a user's search queries is written in JavaScript and uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This code could be embedded into any website either by the website owner or by a malicious third party through a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attack. There it would harvest information about every visitor to that site