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Small Investment, Big Return for You and Your Partners Swear words are, as Wikipedia tells us, a subset of a language that’s “generally considered to be very impolite, rude or offensive.”

Banking giant HSBC Turkey said that it recently identified a cyber attack targeting its credit card and debit card systems in Turkey.

A new sophisticated piece of malware distributed by threat actors through a malicious exit node on the Tor anonymity network appears to be related to the notorious MiniDuke, researchers at F-Secure discovered.

Do you think passwords are still important? Do you ever worry about your passwords? We’ve been kicking around computer and information security for a while now. Why don’t we have a better answer?

SAN FRANCISCO - US justice officials are scooping up mobile phone data from unwitting Americans as part of a sophisticated airborne surveillance program designed to catch criminals, the Wall Street Journal

Kelly Haggerty Appointed as New Chief Product Officer at IID

An annual survey released recently by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) highlights the successes and failures of database security.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Thursday made it easier for people to understand and control how their information is used at the leading social network while expanding its quest to better target ads. The simplified data policy came as Facebook announced that work to improve targeting of ads in the United States is expanding to other countries.

Sometimes, securing your own network isn't enough to guard against a data breach; your ecosystem of third-party providers can introduce a new set of risks to data as well.

This week at the AWS re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services announced three new services designed to provide enterprise customers with additional security, governance, and compliance solutions for their resources deployed in the AWS Cloud.

Figuring out what “normal” means is one of computer security's great challenges. Everyone seems to think that if we only knew what “normal” is, we'd be able to subtract it from what's going on around us and “abnormal” would magically fall out the other side. Unfortunately, it's not that easy.

Following the recent incident in which hundreds of thousands of photos were leaked online, the developers of photo messaging application Snapchat have decided to take steps to protect users against risky third-party applications.

The notorious remote access Trojan (RAT) known as PlugX (Korplug) has been used by a threat group to target users in Afghanistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.PlugX has been observed in numerous targeted attacks since 2012, particularly in campaigns launched by Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.

Microsoft has acquired Israeli cyber security startup Aorato, a company focused on protecting Active Directory deployments. The Herzelia, Israel-based company makes an “Directory Services Application Firewall” (DAF) which analyzes Active Directory-related traffic to detect attacks.

BrowserStack, the cross-browser testing service, has provided more details on the attack in which a hacker gained access to information belonging to some of the company's customers.

Researchers hacked several of the latest popular smartphones during the Mobile Pwn2Own competition that took place alongside the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo on November 12-13.

SAN FRANCISCO - Cyberattackers believed to have been working from China broke through defenses of the US weather service recently, according to a Washington Post report.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has shut down employee VPN (virtual private network) access and suspended telecommuting until further notice for employees at Postal Service headquarters.

WASHINGTON - Americans are worried about being tracked -- both by the government and by online marketers.  

A study commissioned by Incapsula shows that, not surprisingly, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can have a serious financial impact on many targeted organizations.