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A California man pleaded guilty this week in federal court to charges related to hacking into point-of-sale systems in Subway restaurants around the country.

ISLAMABAD - Hackers attacked the website of police in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi late on Thursday but no sensitive data has been compromised, an official said.

Researchers at Symantec say the Elderwood attack platform is at the center of numerous zero-day attacks launched by hacker crews around the world this year.

WASHINGTON - Journalist Glenn Greenwald said Wednesday his book describing the sequence of events around Edward Snowden's release of classified documents demonstrates the fugitive former contractor was neither "reckless" nor "treasonous."

Hortonworks, a company that develops, distributes and supports a 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform for enterprises, today announced that it has acquired data security company XA Secure for an undisclosed sum.

OpenDNS, the company best known for its DNS service that adds a level of security by monitoring domain name requests, today announced that it has raised $35 Million in a round funded by existing and new investors.

PayPal has fixed a filter bypass flaw and a persistent input validation vulnerability affecting its MultiOrder Shipping application. PayPal MultiOrder Shipping (MOS) is a tool that helps eBay businesses save time by allowing them to print up to 50 US Postal Service shipping labels at a time directly from their PayPal accounts.

Data Center Administrators Need Technologies That Allow Them to be as ‘Centered’ on Security as Attackers are on the Data Center.

Public/Private Collaboration Aims to Help Retailers Strengthen Defenses Against Cyber AttacksSome of the Nation’s largest retailers are now sharing cyber threat information among each other and the U.S. government, thanks to a new Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center designed specifically to help the retail industry identify real-time threats and share actionable intelligence to combat cyber attacks.

LOS ANGELES - Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to the new book by journalist Glenn Greenwald about fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the studio said Wednesday.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced May 14 that its primary advisory committee, the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), has started a review of the institute's cryptographic standards and guidelines program.

Researchers at PhishLabs say retail organizations are being targeted by a scam that banks on the companies owing money.

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups have expanded their online presence with increased use of social media, creating new challenges for thwarting attacks, said a study released Wednesday.

Storage vendor SanDisk announced the availability of its first self-encrypting solid state (SSD) drive this week, which utilizes an AES 256-bit FIPS 197 certified hardware crypto engine to enable full-disk encryption.

Warning: This section is going to be a bit “meta-” and it can't be helped. You can't talk about abstract meta-analysis any other way!

Authorities in Belgium and the Netherlands have arrested 12 individuals for their alleged involvement in a major “vishing” (voice phishing) operation, Europol announced Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - A European Court of Justice decision ordering Google to delete some personal data on request has raised concerns about online censorship and how Internet search works in various countries.

According to a new report provided by threat protection vendor Damballa, the devices in an average company’s network are generating an average of 10,000 security events per day, with the most active generating roughly 150,000 events per day.

BlackBerry released two security advisories today, including one related to the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability.

TALLINN - A team of global IT experts on Tuesday urged cyber-savvy Estonia to drop electronic voting from this month's European elections, saying they had identified major security risks.