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SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2016 - Barracuda Networks announced on Wednesday the launch of a new NextGen Firewall product designed to allow organizations to securely connect a large number of endpoints.

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has said he opposes high-tech "back doors" that would allow the government access to encrypted data on people's phones and other devices.

Google on Wednesday released Chrome 49 in the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux, providing users with 26 security fixes and various other improvements.

Increasing resiliency to attacks is the focus for security professionals today. Despite the fact that defenders are developing technologies and tactics that are growing in sophistication, adversaries are as well…at a more rapid pace.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2016 - Researchers at Bluebox Security discovered that the badge scanning application provided by RSA Conference organizers to vendors is plagued by a security bypass flaw.

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released software updates for several of its products to address critical and high severity vulnerabilities.

Apple over the weekend reissued a security update for OS X El Capitan systems after the initial update blocked Apple’s own Ethernet drivers.

Ever wanted to hack Uncle Sam? Provided you're American and can pass a background check, go right ahead, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

I haven’t met too many security professionals that don’t have enough work to do and are looking for more. This may seem obvious to the reader, but in the typical security organization, there is more work to do than there are people to do it. We hear this thought often, but what are some of the reasons behind it?

Google on Tuesday made a series of improvements to Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Gmail, which will bring improved data protection and control over detection thresholds.

FBI chief James Comey on Tuesday defended his agency's efforts to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone in the San Bernardino attacks probe. Comey told lawmakers worried about setting a harmful precedent that law enforcement's job may be crippled by "warrant-proof spaces" that become inaccessible to investigators.

The OpenSSL Project has released updates to patch several vulnerabilities in the crypto library, including a high severity TLS issue that can be exploited to crack encrypted communications and steal potentially sensitive data.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 - Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security firm known for uncovering some of the world’s most sophisticated attack operations globally, today announced a new solution aimed at helping customers detect advanced targeted attacks, and a new security Intelligence offering for enterprises.

Think of the major cyber-attacks from the past few years - the Sony hack, Target breach, Neiman Marcus, Snapchat Breach, H

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 – Microsoft today announced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, a service designed to improve the protection it offers to enterprise customers.

Snapchat on Friday was targeted by a phishing attack that resulted in some payroll information of its employees being inadvertently revealed.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 - Cloud security and compliance solutions provider Qualys has announced a new solution that gathers and correlates data from vulnerability scans and threat feeds to give organizations a view of their potential exposure to threats.

A US magistrate judge in New York ruled Monday that police overstepped the law when they called on Apple to unlock the iPhone of a suspected drug dealer.