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Check Point Extends Zero-Day Security to Endpoints with New SandBlast Agent – Bobsguide (press release)

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Check Point Extends Zero-Day Security to Endpoints with New SandBlast Agent
Bobsguide (press release)
Check Point has today announced Check Point SandBlast Agent, an evolution of the company's advanced perimeter security and zero-day protection technology SandBlast, designed to keep endpoint devices and the data stored on them safe no matter where …
From the Server Room to the Airport, Check Point Extends Zero-Day Security to All Sys…CNNMoney
From the Server Room to the Airport, Check Point Extends Zero-Day Security to All Systems, Wherever They May BeEIN News (press release)

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Secret Service agent pleads guilty to stealing Silk Road bitcoins

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If you can’t trust law enforcement, who can you trust? Shaun Bridges, formerly part of the Baltimore Silk Road task force, has become the second agent to plead guilty to serious charges associated with his time investigating the shady online drug market.
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DEA agent pleads guilty to accepting Silk Road funds

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A Drug Enforcement Administration agent intimately involved in the Silk Road investigation admitted on Wednesday he secretly accepted bitcoins from the underground website’s operator and illegally took other funds.

Carl Mark Force IV, who was a DEA agent for 15 years, pleaded guilty to money laundering, obstruction of justice and extortion under color of official right, according to the plea agreement, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Force could face up to 20 years in prison on each of the counts.

Force, who was based in Baltimore, was part of a multi-agency task force investigating the Silk Road, an underground marketplace for goods such as drugs and fake ID documents. It was shut down in October 2013.

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Startup Outlier grabs endpoint forensic data without agent software

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Outlier, a startup with a sound pedigree in network security, is launching an endpoint threat-detection system that sets itself apart from competitors by working without the need for an agent on every machine.

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Greg Hoglund

Rather than installing software on every endpoint to gather forensics, the system uses data gathered by Windows Network Services and Windows Management Instrumentation to glean information about what endpoints are up to, says co-founder Greg Hoglund.

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