Kaspersky Labs Launches Online Accelerator For Security Startups

The Security Startup Challenge (SSC), is part accelerator, part startup competition, and also has Mangrove Capital Partners and Russian VC firm, the ABRT Fund, putting money behind it. It follows the recent launch of a cyber security accelerator in London, called CyLon.

Startup PFP finds malware intrusions by monitoring processor radio frequencies

Startup PFP is based on research from Virginia Tech funded by the Departments of Defense and  Homeland Security. They were seeking a way to identify whether software-defined radios have unauthorized software running on them. The technology that was developed has a much more general application, particularly in SCADA and other embedded systems, which are often difficult to protect using standard anti-malware tools.
The name PFP comes from power fingerprinting, which is how the founders describe what their system establishes for each device it protects.

Europe (well London) Gets A Cyber Security Incubator

Cyber London (CyLon for short, - the scary robots from Battlestar Galactica!) will be a 12-week program, has been co-founded by Alex van Someren of VC firm Amadeus Capital Partners, who previously founded U.K. cryptography company nCipher along with Jonathan Luff and Grace Cassy, co-founders of Epsilon Advisory Partners. CyLon’s program will be managed by the Ignite accelerator.