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After recently being named as a defendant in a lawsuit related to the massive data breach that hit Target Corp. late last year, Trustwave’s top executive has said the claims against the firm are without merit and that the company would vigorously defend itself against what he calls “baseless allegations”.

FireEye, a provider of solutions that help companies block advanced cyber attacks, has released a new report put together after analyzing 11 zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in 2013 by the security firm.

FRANKFURT - The US National Security Agency's vast eavesdropping programs amassed more than 300 reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Der Spiegel reported Saturday, citing information leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Google on Saturday warned that its Public Domain Name System (DNS) service has been intercepted by the majority of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Turkey.

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft on Friday scrapped a policy which allowed it to peek at Hotmail messages to plug leaks or investigate intellectual property theft. The change came after news broke last week that the US technology titan peered into the account of a French blogger who had gotten hold of inside information about Windows software in 2012.

WASHINGTON - The United States will show "restraint" in cyber operations outside of US government networks, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Friday, urging other countries to do the same. Hagel, speaking at the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, said that the Pentagon "does not seek to 'militarize' cyberspace."

QUITO - Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has said his Twitter account was hacked, blaming right-wing foreign groups for posting false tweets in his name. The messages were removed several minutes after being posted on his account, @MashiRafael, he wrote late Thursday on his microblogging site.

Rapid7 announced a number of enhancements to its IT security data and analytics solutions portfolio this week, including its Nexpose, UserInsight and Metasploit Pro offerings.

GENEVA - Washington must shake up its overseas surveillance program, shut Guantanamo, hold Americans accountable for "war on terror" violations and stem racism in the justice system, a UN panel said Thursday.

Much of mobile malware is going after user data, but the CoinKrypt malware has something else in mind.

Antivirus, Patch Management Failures Open Doors to CyberattacksPatch management and antivirus are meant to prevent attackers cutting their way into the vaults protecting enterprise data.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama put forward a plan Thursday to end bulk collection of telephone records, aiming to defuse a controversy over the government's sweeping surveillance activities on millions of Americans.

MOSCOW - Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday. Journalists spotted that ministers at a cabinet meeting were no longer using Apple tablets, and minister Nikolai Nikiforov confirmed the changeover "took place not so long ago."

SEOUL - South Korea detected a suspected North Korean hacking attempt Thursday to steal military data by using a journalist's notebook computer, defense ministry officials said. The military cyber warfare command found that a notebook infected with a malicious code was used in a bid to attack the defense ministry's computer network, a ministry spokesman said.

ThreatMetrix, a provider of technologies to help organizations detect and block cybercrime, today announced that it has closed a $20 million Series E round of financing.

SINGAPORE - A plan to give control of the Internet's technical operations to a diverse range of groups, including governments and businesses, instead allowing the state sole power, is gathering international support, participants at a Singapore meeting on the web's future said Thursday.

Facebook shared details recently about an internal security framework the company uses to collect and leverage information about malicious activity on the Web.

More details have emerged about a Google Android vulnerability that could be exploited to trap devices in a reboot loop.

While BlackBerry may be struggling in the increasingly competitive smartphone market, the device maker has long had a reputation for robust security in its devices and communications platform.

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