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The fallout from the Target data breach has put security firm Trustwave in the middle of a class action lawsuit. The complaint, which was filed March 24 in U.S. District Court in Illinois, names both Target and Trustwave and accuses the security company of failing to protect Target's systems.

Less than a week after announcing that it would suspended service indefinitely due to a conflict with an (at the time) unnamed security researcher and ongoing legal threats, The Full Disclosure mailing list is coming back, albeit from scratch and under a new operator.

WASHINGTON - Fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday he sees a "turning point" in the surveillance reform plans unveiled by the White House and Congress.

Zettaset, a Mountain View, California-based provider of Big Data management and security solutions, today announced the addition of data-in-motion encryption as a soon-to-be released feature in its flagship management and security add-on application for Hadoop.

Cybercrime Black Market Viewed as Being More Profitable and Low-risk Than Illegal Drug Trade

Cybercriminals may be texting their way past bank security. According to Symantec, a new variant of ATM malware discovered in 2013 has been updated to allow hackers to withdraw cash using SMS messages. 

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama is proposing to end the National Security Agency's controversial bulk telephone data collection, exposed by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Toshiba announced on Tuesday that its MQ01ABUxxxBW series hard disk drives (HDD) has achieved validation to U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2).

Every Time Technology is Used for the Greater Good, We Must Remember There is Also a Group of Malicious Opportunists Waiting to Pounce... 

Basecamp has become the latest victim of DDoS extortion attempt by cybercriminals. Formerly 37Signals, Basecamp is behind the popular management tool of the same name. According to the company, its network was targeted by attackers this morning who were looking for a quick score.

Vulnerability CVE-2014-1761 in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution, Microsoft Warns - Office 2011 for Mac Affected

THE HAGUE - China's President Xi Jinping questioned his US counterpart Barack Obama about reports that Washington had secretly tapped Chinese telecoms giant Huawei for years, a top security aide said Monday.

Securing wireless local area networks can be a tricky business, and a group of researchers have highlighted just how much.

WASHINGTON - Former US president Jimmy Carter has admitted he uses snail mail to evade monitoring by the National Security Agency and that he feels such surveillance methods have been abused.

The Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA) announced on Monday the selection of its first academic research partners who will work together to advance cyber physical system security in transportation vehicles, medical devices and the power grid.

Former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller has joined law firm WilmerHale as partner, the firm announced Monday. Muller retired from the FBI last year after serving as the sixth Director, a position he took one week prior to the September 11 attacks and held for 12 years under two presidents.

BEIJING - Beijing on Monday condemned Washington over reports that the US National Security Agency had for years had been secretly tapping the networks of Chinese telecoms and Internet giant Huawei.

Network security firm Palo Alto Networks announced on Monday that it would acquire privately held security startup Cyvera for roughly $200 million. Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Cyvera has 55 employees and has developed technologies to help block zero-day attacks on the endpoint.

SINGAPORE - Stakeholders meet in Singapore Monday to discuss the future of the Internet after the US said it will hand over stewardship of its technical operations to a global group including businesses and governments.

Tech Experts Unite to Launch Secure Domain FoundationThe Secure Domain Foundation will protect the domain industry from abuse by helping domain registrars and other Internet infrastructure operators identify cyber-criminals setting up criminal networks, the non-profit's founder said in an interview.