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Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security have uncovered an issue in Google's Gmail application for iOS they contend could help an attacker performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

BERLIN - Germany on Thursday expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin in an escalating row over alleged spying by the US that has opened the worst diplomatic rift in years between the Western allies.

MALE, Maldives  - The Maldives has said it acted alone to expel a Russian national suspected by the US of being one of the world's most prolific traffickers of stolen credit cards.

Law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firms have teamed up in an operation aimed at Shylock, a widely distributed piece of malware used by cybercriminals to steal banking credentials.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have published a detailed analysis of a "versatile" Linux DDoS Trojan available online.

In our modern, consumer-driven world, it’s extremely rare to come across someone without a mobile phone. What started as a luxury item that enabled phone calls from outside the home has become mandatory for not only voice, but other daily functions and operations like calendars, reminders, music, pictures, apps and more.

China-based threat actors are using sophisticated malware installed on handheld scanners to target shipping and logistics organizations from all over the world.

Private communications solutions provider Silent Circle now allows customers to make encrypted voice calls in a total of 79 countries, the company announced on Thursday.

TUNIS - Hackers briefly disrupted the online voter registration process for Tunisia's parliamentary and presidential polls later this year, the electoral commission said on Thursday.

LONDON  - Britain is rushing through emergency laws to ensure the police and security services can keep accessing people's Internet and mobile phone data, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Thursday.

The notorious file-encrypting CryptoLocker ransomware has not been active since the latest takedown

Longest Running ICS Cyber Security Conference Opens Call for Presentations for 2014 Event in Atlanta, Georgia

MANILA  - Forty-two Taiwanese and two Chinese suspects have been arrested in the Philippines over a sophisticated Internet scam targeting compatriots back home, police said Thursday.

Microsoft and Vitalwerks Internet Solutions, the parent firm of Dynamic DNS provider No-IP, have reached a settlement in the recent malware disruption

Senate Committee Approves Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, But Privacy Groups Raise Concerns Over Government Access to Personal Data on U.S Citizens

OpenDNS has enhanced its cloud-based network security service Umbrella with new capabilities designed to protect organizations against targeted attacks, the company announced on Tuesday.

Cybercriminals are using thousands of compromised computers to target point-of-sale (PoS) systems from which they can steal payment card information, FireEye reported on Wednesday.

Facebook's Threat Infrastructure team helped law enforcement take down a little-known botnet that may have infected as many as 250,000 computers.

BERLIN - The second case within days of alleged US spying in Germany on Wednesday threatened to further strain transatlantic ties already frayed by the NSA surveillance scandal. German authorities said police had searched the Berlin-area home and office of a man who, local media reported, is a German military employee accused of passing secrets to the United States.

WASHINGTON - The FBI and National Security Agency monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-American activists, academics and a political candidate, according to a report co-authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald.