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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed “CozyDuke” (also known as CozyBear and CozyCar) is believed to be responsible for recent cyberattacks targeting the US Department of State and the White House, according to Kaspersky Lab.

RSA Conference 2015 -- The security challenges posed by the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) are far from hypothetical - a point being hammered home here at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Roughly five months after agreeing to merge, security firms Accuvant and FishNet Security said on Tuesday that the new, combined company will have a new name that will kick in during the summer of 2015.

RSA Conference 2015 -- Stumbling around in the dark is not the metaphor a CISO probably wants to use to describe his or her organization's approach to security. But according to Amit Yoran, like or not, defending a digital infrastructure today can be exactly like that.

Even though Silicon Valley has had an often-contentious relationship with the US government's national security organizations, it's now time to be neighbors, one top official said Tuesday.

Qualys today announced the availability of version 2.0 of the company’s Web Application Firewall (WAF). The latest version of the solution comes with several new features designed to help organizations address web application security issues.

Dynamic, identity-driven security solutions provider Cryptzone is showcasing this week at the RSA Conference the company’s new access management solution AppGate Secure Access.

HP has teamed up with several security solutions providers in an effort to enhance and expand its security portfolio. With its new offerings, the company aims at providing a new approach for securing interactions between users, applications, and data.

BlackBerry announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire WatchDox, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of enterprise solutions to access, share and protect sensitive documents, for an undisclosed sum. Along with the acquisition, BlackBerry said it would open a new security-focused R&D center in Israel.

Context-based security and fraud prevention company ThreatMetrix unveiled on Monday the company’s Digital Identity Network, a solution designed to help protect consumers and businesses against fraudulent activities.

It’s time for RSA Conference again. That annual gathering of enterprise security professionals, technology manufacturers and solution providers, and partygoers, where you will find some of the brightest minds in the industry and the newest and most innovative companies with the goal of helping you better secure your enterprise.

Apple’s recent fix for the OS X privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “rootpipe” isn’t effective, according to researchers.

HP has released updates to address several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in HP Network Automation.

Malicious Hackers Can Exploit a Vulnerability in Magento to Access Credit Card DataResearchers have identified a serious vulnerability in Magento, the popular e-commerce platform owned by eBay. The security hole exposes the details of millions of individuals who shop on the hundreds of thousands of online stores that use Magento.

A security researcher was questioned by the FBI and banned from boarding a plane after he posted a message on Twitter about hacking into an aircraft’s systems.

After weeks of rumors that it was in talks to acquire Websense, defense contractor Raytheon officially said on Monday that it has entered into a agreement with Vista Equity Partners to form a new company combining Websense, a Vista portfolio company, with Raytheon Cyber Products.

Netherlands-based security solutions provider Fox-IT today announced the launch of the company’s Cyberthreat Management Platform.The new context-driven threat intelligence solution is designed to help organizations protect their systems against both known and unknown threats, Fox-IT said.

Google has a new sheriff keeping watch over the wilds of the Internet. Austrian-born Gerhard Eschelbeck has ranged the British city of Oxford; cavorted at notorious Def Con hacker conclaves, wrangled a herd of startups, and camped out in Silicon Valley. He now holds the reins of security and privacy for all-things Google.