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PUNTA CANA - KASPERSKY LAB SECURITY ANALYST SUMMIT - A highly sophisticated gang of criminals inserted infected USB sticks into ATMs and emptied out all the cash inside, a security researcher told SecurityWeek.

If there was one topic that got people talking at CES in January, it was the Internet of Things (IoT). Once the stuff of science fiction, we are now facing the arrival of networked devices that can be connected to the Internet, from tennis rackets to refrigerators to printers.

Microsoft said it is investigating an Internet Explorer vulnerability at the center of reports of attacks against IE 10.

A moon landing of a different sort is affecting owners of Linksys e-series routers - and it is captivating for all the wrong reasons.

JAKARTA - Indonesia Monday described as "mind-boggling" a report that Australian spies targeted Jakarta during a trade dispute with Washington, as a new espionage row erupted during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Google has quietly acquired security startup SlickLogin, an Israeli company working on innovative authentication solutions that leverage mobile and audio technology.

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BERLIN - Germany plans to beef up its counterintelligence tactics against allied countries in response to revelations of widespread US spying, Der Spiegel magazine reported Sunday.

SEOUL - South Korean regulators Sunday suspended some operations of three credit card firms as punishment for the unprecedented theft of financial data on more than 20 million people.

Kickstarter, a web site that serves as a funding platform for creative projects, said on Saturday that malicious hackers gained unauthorized access to its systems and accessed user data.

Apple has published a new guide designed to help developers of Mac OS and iOS applications build more secure programs by design.

Tacoma, Washington-based IID, launched a new information sharing platform this week, where government agencies and enterprises can share data about the latest threats and ongoing attacks.

WASHINGTON - A civilian employee at the National Security Agency has been disciplined after admitting he gave intelligence leaker Edward Snowden his personal encryption details, NBC News reported Thursday.

Security researchers from FireEye have discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit (CVE-2014-0322) being used in a watering hole attack on the US Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website. Dubbed “Operation SnowMan” by FireEye, the attack targets IE 10 with Adobe Flash.

A new report on banking Trojans by Dell SecureWorks has some familiar faces on its list of the most widespread financial malware. Call it PC users' most unwanted.

Absolute Software hit back on Kaspersky Lab's assertion that its Computrace software can be exploited by hackers.

Bit9, a Waltham, Mass-based security software maker best known for its application whitelisting solutions, today announced that it has raised $38.25 million in new funding, and has acquired Carbon Black, a provider of incident response solutions.

This is the beginning of a series of postings I'll be doing on security metrics. It's a topic that I don't think we, as a community, have a particularly good grasp of – probably because security, as a field, is only just beginning to professionalize to the point where (in some markets) it's getting more than a nod as a necessary evil.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab claim in a new report that the Computrace agent residing in the firmware of many popular laptop and desktop computers can be used as a springboard for attackers.