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Like Mosquitoes, Malware is Everywhere and is a Formidable Adversary... 

The University of Maryland is the latest victim of a significant data breach after experiencing what school officials described as a “sophisticated computer security attack” that exposed records containing personal information.

Synopsys, a company that provides tools and services for designing chips and electronic systems, said on Wednesday that it would acquire Coverity, a provider of software quality, testing, and security tools.

Secure application development programs are making progress reducing the prevalence of well-known vulnerabilities, but others appear to be growing in frequency, according to a new report from Cenzic.

Along with issuing a warning on Tuesday about multiple vulnerabilities in Belkin WeMo Home Automation devices, security firm IOActive accused Belkin of being unresponsive in issuing fixes and responding to its reports.

Researchers from Adallom, a SaaS security company founded in 2012, say they recently discovered an unusual variant of the Zeus Trojan that targets Salesforce.com users.

Just weeks after announcing an $18 million Series B funding round, Bluebox Security, a San Francisco, California-based mobile security startup, today officially launched its first product offering.

Incident response is the part of security that organizations may wish they never had to think about, as it only comes in to play after an incident has happened. However, a survey of CISOs and security technicians showed that the problem may be technical and not just managerial.

Krak des Chevaliers was one of the most dominant castles in medieval Syria. In 1271, it was breached when attackers found its weakness: a timber palisade. The attackers overran this simple timber palisade to capture a castle outwork. From there, they undermined and collapsed a castle wall. More than 100 years of wall building destroyed in an instant.

US Man Sues Ethiopia for Cyber SnoopingSAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit filed on Tuesday accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man's computer with spyware as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of the government.

Early Tuesday, Security firm IOActive issued a warning about multiple vulnerabilities in Belkin WeMo Home Automation devices that could give attackers the ability to remotely control WeMo Home Automation attached devices over the Internet, perform malicious firmware updates,

It is not uncommon for vendors to give security advisories. This time however, it appears a hacker gave at least one victim an unexpected heads up. According to Ars Technica, a user of an Asus router uncovered a text file on his external hard drive. The message read as follows: "This is an automated message being sent out to everyone effected. Your Asus router (and your documents) can be accessed by anyone in the world with an Internet connection."

Cylance Launches Mathematically-assisted Endpoint Threat Protection

Shodan, the specialized search engine that lets users search for Internet-connected devices rather than web sites, today launched Shodan Maps, a new feature designed to let users see search results on a map instead of a regular (text) listing.

WASHINGTON - AT&T said Tuesday that a secretive US court ordered data turned over from more than 35,000 customers in six months as the telecom giant released its first "transparency report."

NEW YORK - AT&T and IBM announced plans Tuesday to join forces to help cities, utilities and others use big data analytics to better manage their infrastructure.

A security startup is pushing a mix of threat correlation, sandboxing and traffic inspection to address the challenges posed by sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks.

While Security Monitoring Generates Big Data, in its Raw Form it Remains Only a Means to an End...

Security firm IOActive warned on Tuesday that it has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Belkin WeMo Home Automation devices that could affect over 500,000 users.