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BOGOTA - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos lashed out Thursday at cyber-espionage allegedly carried out by a computer expert who worked for his main rival in upcoming presidential elections.

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If there is a silver lining to the series of high-profile targeted attacks that have made headlines over the past several months, it is that more enterprises are losing faith in the “magic bullet” invulnerability of their prevention-based network security defense systems.

SYDNEY - Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is being manipulated by Russian authorities, the former director of the US National Security Agency reportedly said Thursday, adding that he believed the leaks would cost lives.

Incapsula, the cloud-based website performance and security service, today announced plans to significantly increase its infrastructure capacity throughout this year.

Vulnerability disclosures in the second half of 2013 were up 6.5 percent from the first six months of the year industry-wide, according to a new report from Microsoft.

According to a new study published by ThreatTrack Security, 72% of survey respondents from the energy and financial services industries are confident that their organization will be the target of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), targeted malware attack or other sophisticated cybercrime or cyber-espionage tactic at some point during the next 12 months.

Dead doesn't always mean dead - at least not in the case of Windows user accounts.

PARIS - Hackers have stolen the personal data of 1.3 million customers of French telephone company Orange, in the second major breach of its kind in a matter of months.

BOGOTA - A cyber-spy seeking to undermine Colombia's peace talks intercepted emails from President Juan Manuel Santos and leftist rebels, prosecutors said Tuesday. Colombian top prosecutor Luis Eduardo Montealegre told said an unnamed "engineer" tried to "interfere with the peace process" and had acted against "national security."

Enterprises Should Insist That Cloud Providers Give Visibility Into Their Security Processes and Controls to Ensure Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of Data...

Microsoft on Tuesday released updated versions of white papers focused on software supply chain security and critical infrastructure protection. 

Imperva Examines the "Non-Advanced Persistent Threat"Not everything about the threats facing today's enterprises is advanced.

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FireEye, a provider of threat prevention solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire privately-held nPulse Technologies, a provider of network forensics solutions, for roughly $60 million in cash and $10 million stock.

An Alert-based Security Operations Model Does Not Scale to Meet Today’s Complex Threat Landscape and Enerprise Demands.

New Solutions from IBM Help Customers Detect, Prevent and Respond to Cyber Attacks IBM on Monday unveiled a suite of security software and services designed to help organizations defend against advanced cyber threats and protect sensitive data.

Cloud storage provider Dropbox said it has fixed a vulnerability that could expose user content to third-parties.

If You’re Truly Being Proactive, There is No Such Thing as "No News" in Cybersecurity...

Symantec unfurled a roadmap for a mix of product integrations and managed services the firm hopes will its customers battle sophisticated threats.