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Promises of easy money should be taken with a grain of salt – especially when they come with a request to download a mobile app.

F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen said he is cancelling his talk at the upcoming RSA security conference in February due to reports RSA received money from the NSA several years ago to use a flawed algorithm in RSA's BSAFE encryption product.

While your end users may act like children from time to time, your security practices shouldn’t treat them like they are. Gain visibility and control before being placed on the naughty list.

Armed with a fresh funding to the tune of $10 million from a recently announced Series A round of funding, Norse, a provider of threat intelligence solutions, has launched Norse IPViking 2.0, the next generation of the company’s cloud-based IT security solution, which provides “context-rich, dark-threat intelligence” to customers.

WASHINGTON - Just six months after first leaking National Security Agency secrets in a move that triggered a revaluation of US surveillance policies, Edward Snowden is declaring "mission's already accomplished."

In 2014, Will Your Security Team be Driving New Value, or Responding to Yesterday’s Threats? 

During the past several months, leaks about the NSA's electronic surveillance operations have pooled into a river that has spilled into calls for reform.

LJUBLJANA - A Slovenian court on Monday sentenced to 58 months in jail Matjaz Skorjanc, the creator of the "Mariposa Botnet", a vast network of virus-infected computers used by criminal hackers.

Casino operator Affinity Gaming has joined the growing list of businesses dealing with malicious hacker attacks against credit card and debit card systems.

The United States Army announced earlier this month that the Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Headquarters will be located at Fort Gordon, Ga, a move that brings together Army cyber and network operations under one commander for the first time in its history.

Massive Data Breach Renews Call for Adoption of Chip-based Payment Cards in The United States...

Making Incident Response a Top Priority and Developing a Policy and Process Can Limit The Damage Caused by a Data Breach.

NEW YORK - US authorities said Friday three more people were charged in connection with the operation of Silk Road, the online black market bazaar for drugs, hacker tools and other illicit goods.

WASHINGTON - AT&T said Friday it would join rivals in the tech and telecom sector in publishing a "transparency report" about demands for information from law enforcement agencies.

WASHINGTON - US and British spy agencies eavesdropped on an Israeli prime minister, energy firms, aid agencies and an EU official overseeing anti-trust cases, the New York Times reported Friday.

WASHINGTON - US Internet users are far more worried about computer hacking and theft of personal information than about online privacy and tracking by marketers, a poll showed Friday.

A group of cryptology experts say they have demonstrated how to extract a 4096-bit RSA key from a laptop in less than an hour using a sound-based attack technique.

WASHINGTON - Google said Thursday it saw a big jump in early 2013 in the number of requests from governments around the world to remove online content, in many cases for political reasons.

WASHINGTON - US authorities Thursday charged a Microsoft executive and his friend and business partner with insider trading, saying they used confidential information on the tech giant's investment in bookseller Barnes & Noble. Criminal and civil charges were filed against Microsoft portfolio manager Brian Jorgenson, and his friend Sean Stokke, officials said.

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