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SEOUL - North Korea has doubled the number of its elite cyber warriors over the past two years and established overseas bases for hacking attacks, a report said Sunday. The North's cyber war unit now has 5,900 personnel, compared with 3,000 two years ago, the South's Yonhap news agency said.

MOSCOW - Russia's parliament passed a bill on Friday requiring Internet companies to store Russians' personal data inside the country in an apparent move to pressure sites such as Facebook and Twitter into handing over user information.

BERLIN - An employee of Germany's foreign intelligence service is suspected of spying for Washington on a parliamentary panel probing US surveillance, media reports said Friday. The federal prosecutor general confirmed that a 31-year-old German was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of acting for a foreign intelligence service, without specifying which one.

Pro-Syrian hacktivists of the Syrian Electronic Army have hijacked the official blog and Twitter account of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the military forces of Israel.

Microsoft announced plans today to release six security bulletins as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in Cisco's VoIP Manager

Regression and security fixes are included in the latest version of the Python programing language released by the Python Software Foundation on July 1.

Even in the world of malware, the one constant is change. According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab and F-Secure, the MiniDuke malware spotted last year targeting governments throughout Europe has been updated. The newest version, nicknamed 'CosmicDuke' by F-Secure, shares code with an even older piece of malware known as Cosmu whose roots go back to 2001.

WASHINGTON - The future of an open Internet faces threats from government crackdowns, and "balkanization" resulting from growing concerns over broad electronic surveillance, a survey of experts showed Thursday.

Visibility is Key in Mobile Security: Without it We Cannot Know Where Data is Going, or How it’s Being Stored...

The IEEE launched has launched a new service designed to help the security industry respond more efficiently to the modern malware threat landscape.

More and more pieces of malware have become capable of targeting users running 64-bit versions of operating systems.

LONDON - Britain's electronic eavesdropping center GCHQ faces legal action from seven internet service providers who accuse it of illegally accessing "potentially millions of people's private communications," campaigners said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency's electronic snooping led to "well over 100 arrests" and helped smash numerous terrorist plots, a privacy review panel said Wednesday.

RSA Research has identified a malware-based fraud ring targeting Brazil's popular Boleto payment method that may have pilfered billions of dollars from unsuspecting victims. 

WASHINGTON - Washington will push Beijing to crack down on cyber-spying and halt the theft of corporate data when the two powers meet next week for high-level talks, a US diplomat told AFP Wednesday.

New Version of Cridex Malware Combines Data Stealer and Email WormA new version of the data-stealing malware Cridex (Feodo/Bugat) has been found to rely on a worm in order to spread from one computer to another.

Researchers from Offensive Security have found a way to disable the protection systems provided by the latest version of Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).

Researchers at FireEye have identified a piece of Android malware that disguises itself as a "Google Service Framework" but actually kills an anti-virus application and takes other malicious actions.