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As Long as Attackers are Organized and We’re not, We’re Losing an Asymmetric War.

ManTech announced today that it was awarded a $7.1 million contract by the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide cyber defense support to the U.S. Air Force 90th Information Operations Squadron.

The inevitable has happened. Pornographic and violent images, many including gore and abuse, some even photo shopped to look like your friends, appeared on users’ profile pages on Facebook last Monday. While the true numbers and how it happened probably won’t be known for some time, experts in the field of Internet security are calling it a “widespread” spam attack and one of the worst security breaches in social media to date.

As twilight approaches for 2011, security vendors have set their gaze on the rise of Android malware during the year and what is ahead. Last week, Juniper Networks entered the fray, declaring the number of malware samples it observed targeting devices running Google Android had shot up nearly 500 percent since July. Today, McAfee released its threats report for the third quarter of the year, which found that the amount of malware targeting Android devices jumped 37 percent since the...

In a letter sent to customers on Friday, and obtained by SecurityWeek, NASDAQ outlined measures put in place to secure its Directors Desk platform, including changes made since an attack that occurred October of 2010.

Our Effectiveness at Controlling Modern Malware will be Tied to our Ability to Adapt and Extend our Security MethodologiesModern malware and advanced attacks are obviously very real and serious threats today. The serial breaches of 2011 provide ample proof of that. However, as often happens when confronting a new challenge, myth and misinformation can creep in the conversation and can make the problem seem insurmountable.

Due to the Lack of Control over Mobile Clients, Users Will be Relied on More than Ever.

On Thursday, Rep. Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) had opened an investigation into the threat posed by Chinese-owned telecommunications companies working in the U.S.

Reuters Continues to Highlight Past Security Failures of NASDAQ Product While Failing to Disclose it Offers a Competing Product10:51 AM - Updated with comment from Reuters

After a laptop computer was stolen in October, Sacramento, California’s Sutter Health is informing over 3.3 million patients that information in their records is presumed stolen. The upside is that no financial information was lost, and the company used the notification delay to fix a major mistake.

Remember the 1999 Sci-Fi classic movie, The Matrix, where Earth had been taken over by machines that created a simulated reality in order to control the human population? The human race deliberately created a sentient network of computers for the good of mankind. As energy became scarce, however, the computer network created a simulated reality to mentally enslave the human population; using human body heat and electrical activity as an energy source.

Update: Reuters Accused of Omitting Disclosures in NASDAQ Breach Reports

DHS Downplays SCADA Breach That Destroyed Pump at Water Utility, Saying No Credible Corroborated Data at This Time

Dedicated Appliance Brings Real-Time Threat Identification, Dynamic Scoring, Recursive Assessment and Predictive Analysis NitroSecurity, the SIEM solutions provider set to be acquired by McAfee, has launched its new NitroView Advanced Correlation Engine (ACE) appliance.

Looking to enhance its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solutions portfolio, Aruba Networks today announced that it would acquire Avenda Systems, a provider of network security solutions that connect users and devices to corporate networks.

"Surveying today’s threats is somewhat like peering into a kaleidoscope..."On Thursday, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller laid out some of the challenges posed by terrorists, spies, and hackers to group at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.In his speech, Mueller noted that “terrorists, spies, and hackers are always thinking of new ways to harm us,” citing examples of recent cases and describing how the FBI plans to address some of these threats.

Austrian programmer and security analyst Peter Kleisnner is slated to unveil the first known bootkit for Windows 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in Mumbai.

The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) has issued a fix for a bug in the BIND server software that has triggered crashes at organizations across the Internet.

Live Webcast: Embracing Consumerization: Navigating Change in Enterprise Security Now Available On Demand

Plans Must be in Place to Recover Anytime the Trust Provider is Compromised