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White Lodging Services, an independent hotel management company, said on Monday that point-of-sale (POS) systems at 14 of its properties may have been breached, resulting in exposure of customer payment data from Mar. 20 to Dec.

SAN FRANCISCO - Internet titans eager to regain the trust of users for the first time on Monday provided insight into numbers of secret requests for user data made by the US government.

As competition in the market for DDoS protection solutions heats up, Corero Network Security, a provider of network security solutions, has announced a new series of appliances designed to help service providers defend against powerful DDoS attacks.

A Russian national has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to hack into a retail brokerage accounts and execute fake trades.

Microsoft Provides Additional Transparency on US Government Requests for User Data Microsoft on Monday said that it was in the process of updating its transparency reporting in order to provide new information relating to governmental demands for customer data.

Vulnerability disclosure can be a thorny issue in the world of security – something recently demonstrated in a dispute about security bugs hiding in Oracle software.

ABUJA - Nigerian police on Monday said they had arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the death of an Australian woman and for defrauding her of $90,000 in an online dating scam.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told AFP that Orowo Jesse Omokoh was arrested on January 28 in Nigeria, without stating where exactly.

“The Mask” Leverages High-end Exploits and Packs Bootkit and Rootkit With Mac OS X and Linux Versions Kasperky Lab said on Monday that it has been investigating a sophisticated cyber-espionage operation that it is calling “one of the most advanced threats at the moment”.

Open Source is a Valuable Tool for Defenders as They Work to Close Gaps and to Gather Greater Intelligence About Potential Threats

OTTAWA - Canada's ultra-secret eavesdropping agency on Friday blasted the disclosure of its tradecraft, after it was reported the agency had tracked airline passengers connected to Wi-Fi services at airports.

FireEye, a provider of solutions that help companies block advanced cyber attacks, announced a major update to its FireEye OS that the company says enhances the management and functionality of several of its products.

Think About Survivability and Design Your Network for Resilience as Threats Change...

OTTAWA - As a trial run for the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies, Canadian intelligence collected data from Canadian travelers who passed through major airports and connected to Wifi services and could then be tracked for days, CBC reported Thursday.

Yahoo has issued a warning of an attack targeting users of its email service, and is initiating password resets for potentially affected accounts.

Websense is providing free source code, queries and lookups designed to help organizations use Microsoft Error Reporting to identify USB devices connecting to their networks.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has nominated a US Navy officer, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, to take over as head of the embattled National Security Agency.

Defense.Net Launches New DDoS Mitigation ServiceDefense.Net, a startup dedicated to combating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, this week launched DDoS Frontline, a new mitigation service designed to help customers fend off powerful and always-changing DDoS attacks.

Researchers from RSA say they have discovered the server infrastructure behind a point-of-sale (PoS) attack campaign that has infected systems mostly in the United Sates, but also in 10 other countries including Russia, Canada and Australia.

Target Corporation on Wednesday said that the attacker(s) behind the recent massive data breach at the retailer likely compromised its systems by using stolen credentials from a vendor.

Most Organizations Lack the Tools and Processes to Assess and Prioritize Risks and Vulnerabilities from the Business Perspective...