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WASHINGTON - A Romanian using the online moniker "Guccifer" was indicted Thursday on US charges of hacking into email accounts of high-profile people including family of former presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush.

A new security company is pushing a product that monitors, detects and blocks threats from inside the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

SafeNet has launched a new suite of high-speed encryption (HSE) solutions designed to help organizations protect sensitive data moving across corporate networks and data centers, the company announced on Tuesday.

Mergers and acquisitions make for a busy time for businesses. Unfortunately for them, they can also be a busy time for attackers. According to researchers at FireEye, a number of advanced persistent threat campaigns have selected mergers as opportune times to strike.

SourceClear Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding from Investors, Including Frank Marshall and Box.com Chief Trust Officer

Malware authors have developed a new version of the Svpeng Android Trojan, which they are currently using to target users in the United States.

SafeNet Appoints Prakash Panjwani President and Chief Executive Officer Data protection firm SafeNet announced on Wednesday that it has named Prakash Panjwani as the company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer.

Cisco has addressed a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS, the operating system used for some of the company’s security appliances.

Stealth security company vArmour announced on Wednesday that it has named Tim Eades as chief executive officer (CEO).

Twitter has re-enabled the TweetDeck application after taking it down following successful exploitation of a cross-site scripting issue.

WASHINGTON - Twitter said Wednesday it briefly took down its popular TweetDeck application to view and manage messages because of a security flaw, which prompted some calls to stop using the program. Some experts said the vulnerability could be exploited by hackers, and reports cited instances of people's TweetDeck accounts hijacked on the Chrome browser.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro is investigating reports of a breach after data from thousands of credit and debit cards were discovered being offered online on a notorious underground forum.

RSS aggregator Feedly was hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack and an extortion demand today, both of which it is refusing to bend to.

New Framework Helps UK Financial Institutions Improve Resilience to Cyberattacks

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group whose activities have been monitored by FireEye has started using social networks to trick the employees of targeted organizations into installing malware, the company said Tuesday.

Mozilla has released Firefox 30 which fixes a total of seven vulnerabilities affecting the Web browser. Google has also updated its Chrome Web Browser to address four security holes.