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Smart or Not, the Grid is an Important Piece of our Critical Infrastructure that Must be Carefully and Thoroughly Secured.

According to local Japanese media, defense information and nuclear power plant design and safety plans were taken during the attack on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which was discovered in August, and disclosed in September.Japan’s largest defense contractor said in August that it “would continue to strengthen” existing security measures, but believed that it had contained the cyber attack.

Spammers have turned to creating their own URL shortening services to better conceal links in their messages.Researchers at Symantec recently uncovered a spam gang with at least 80 URL shortening sites, all of which used a similar naming pattern as well as the .info top-level domain. According to the company, the spammers are using free, open source URL shortening scripts to operate these sites. After creating shortened URLs with their own service, the spammers then blast out their messages with...

Financially, RIM continues to be a healthy company. But if doesn't “think different” about its network strategy, its customers may think different about their choice of handset vendor.

SSL Renegotiation Vulnerability Exploited via New Attack Tool to Launch DoS AttacksA German hacker group has released a new proof-of-concept tool for denial of service (DoS) attacks that exploits a weakness in SSL.

Taiwan has taken the top spot as the world’s dominant source of attack traffic, according to a new report from Akamai Technologies. In its State of the Internet report for the second quarter of the year, the company found 10 percent of global attack traffic originated from Taiwan, up from 9.1 percent in Q1. Myanmar, the former number one, slipped by second place with 9.1 percent, while the United States rounded out the top three with 8.3.

Commtouch announced today that it has appointed Shlomi Yanai as chief executive officer.

A recent study focused on the concerns and challenges within the IT industry revealed that enterprise-level participants lack confidence in their organization’s overall security posture, citing staffing as one of the main reasons.

Radiant Logic recently announced that it was forming a working relationship with open source identity and access management vendor ForgeRock, merging Forge’s OpenAM tool with their own RadiantOne offering for businesses looking for easier access to SSO solutions.Radiant Logic is one of the smaller market players known for identity and context virtualization.

According to a report from CNN, the U.S.

AntiSec Raids Law Enforcement in Support of "Occupy Wall Street" MovementOn Friday, AntiSec supporters released a massive cache of personal and confidential information, after announcing the successful compromise of several law enforcement websites. The actions, a statement said, were done to support the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Two unknown sources close to the NSADAQ investigation have told Reuters that malicious software that worked its way into a web-based communications platform at NASDAQ last year allowed the attackers to monitor communications between busin

There are thousands of script kiddies, launching hundreds of thousands of automated attacks - at least one of these will hit your site.

On Thursday DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Mark Weatherford has been appointed as the new Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). Weatherford, who will start in mid-November, will be charged with managing cybersecurity operations and communications resilience for the DHS.

Bitdefender today announced the availability of its new security solution specifically designed to protect virtualized data centers.