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“President Obama in talks with Russian Leaders.” “Global flu pandemic concerns reach all time high.” 

Yahoo’s recently-appointed VP of Information Security and CISO said that, as of this week, Internet traffic moving between Yahoo’s data centers is now fully encrypted.

Two members of an international cybercrime operation have pleaded guilty in federal court in New Jersey to their roles in an identity theft and fraud scheme that attempted to steal at least $15 million.

A Chicago man admitted to stealing more than $1 million worth of iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices from Verizon Wireless through an elaborate scheme that involved bribing FedEx drivers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced on Tuesday.

A ransomware campaign has paid off big time for whoever is behind a spate of CryptoDefense infections during the past month.

When you start your metrics program, you will find that a great deal of information can be gleaned from existing data that gets stored in various places....

A team of university professors say they have found evidence that RSA Security adopted a NSA-linked TLS extension to help the spy agency better crack encryption.

WASHINGTON - More than 40 activist organizations and companies called Tuesday for an overhaul of US government surveillance authority that goes beyond President Barack Obama's proposal. The coalition said Obama's proposal to end bulk collection of telephone data by the National Security Agency is positive, but does not go far enough.

The two banks who filed a lawsuit against security firm Trustwave in connection with the Target breach have moved to dismiss their lawsuit without prejudice to re-filing.

Good Technology Focuses on Mobile Service Management With Acquisition of BoxTone

Washington, DC, Earth. April 1, 2014 — A critical vulnerability in the BNL Waste Allocator Load Lifter (Earth Class) industrial operating system, allowing remote privilege escalation and code execution through the injection of wOS control packets, has resulted in the compromise of waste removal automation on a global scale.

It's every company's worst nightmare. Even before the bad news is splashed across the press, word makes its way up the chain of command: Your company has been hacked. Customer data has been stolen, and you don't know by whom.

A recent presentation at the Black Hat Asia conference last week placed the spotlight on securing the Internet of Things, this time in the form of an electric car.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sign of the growing importance of the Internet "cloud," software group Cloudera said Monday it raised a whopping $900 million to expand its big data corporate services.

Attackers in the Middle East are increasingly adding a new tool into their toolbox, according to Symantec. 

MOSCOW - Uzbekistan has brought in new regulations to increase surveillance of Internet cafes in the latest tightening of the country's strict rules governing access to the web, local media reported.

NEW YORK - Investors are pumping millions of dollars into encryption as unease about data security drives a rising need for ways to keep unwanted eyes away from personal and corporate information. Major data breaches at Target and other retailers that have made data security a boardroom issue at companies large and small.

Two firms offering popular mobile applications (apps) have agreed to settle charges brought forth by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that they failed to properly secure their apps and misrepresented the security of such apps to users, the FTC announced on Friday.

SHANGHAI - Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei on Monday pledged to protect cyber security, following reports this month that a US government agency had been secretly tapping the company's networks.