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Barracuda Networks said Wednesday that it’s filed a countersuit against Trend Micro, which filed patent infringement charges against the company with the U.S. International Trade Commission last November. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in central California, Barracuda claims that Trend Micro infringed on three patents it bought from IBM. The patents cover [...]  read more »

Barracuda Networks hasn’t quit its quest to acquire Sourcefire. The maker of email and Web security appliances on June 9 increased its bid to $8.25 per share, up from $7.50 per share in its May 27 unsolicited offer, but was again rejected by Sourcefire. In a June 18 letter to Barracuda CEO Dean Drako, Sourcefire [...]  read more »

Apparently, there is never a dull moment at the Sourcefire universal headquarters. The IDS company, which has gone through a failed acquisition by Check Point and an IPO in the last 24 months, is now fending off takeover bids. Sourcefire officials said on Friday that the company had turned down an unsolicited acquisition offer from [...]  read more »

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace aren’t very popular in the corporate world, according to a study by Barracuda Networks.Analyzing data from businesses using its Web filtering appliance, the company found that 44 percent block MySpace while 26 percent block Facebook. More than 50 percent block one of those sites or both.“It was interesting [...]  read more »

Firewall vendor NetContinuum was quietly snatched up last month by Barracuda Networks, a vendor looking to capitalize on the growing demand for Web application security tools.