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BRASILIA - US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden offered to help Brazil defeat US spying Tuesday but, in an open letter, said he needs permanent political asylum to do so. The move was widely interpreted as a request for asylum in Brazil, including by the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that published the letter in both English and Portuguese.

FireEye security researcher Vinay Pidathala joins Ryan Naraine to talk about the MisoSMS botnet that steals SMS messages from Android devices and the state of security on the Android ecosystem.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified more malware utilizing Tor's anonymity capabilities to shield their command and control infrastructure.

NSA Announces 2013 “Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper” Competition Despite being under fire for its highly controversial global surveillance programs, the National Security Agency (NSA) is calling upon the public to submit papers to help it make discoveries to support its intelligence initiatives.

WASHINGTON - Under fire from courts and allies over a vast US spying dragnet, President Barack Obama faced new heat Tuesday from Internet titans who fear the surveillance has crossed constitutional lines.

One month after a group of Chinese researchers exploited a critical WebKit bug to break into -- and hijack private data -- from a fully patched iPhone, Apple has shipped a Safari update to fix the vulnerability.

Identity management and authentication solution provider Entrust is slated to be acquired by a company called Datacard Group, which specializes in secure identification and card personalization technology.

LONDON - Britain must boost its oversight of a cyber-security centre run by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday, after lawmakers raised fears that the company's involvement could pose a threat to national security.

SolarWinds, a provider of cost efficient IT management software, today announced enhancements to several of its security management solutions, including its Log & Event Manager, Firewall Security Manager and Patch Manager. The latest enhancements to SolarWinds' security solutions include:

New Fund Expands Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund to $300 Million and Re-focuses Investment Scope

As we are quickly approaching the holiday season and everyone is focused on crossing off the final to-do’s on their list in order to spend some well-earned time with family and friends, I thought I would use a popular Christmas time story in order to illustrate an important point.

"This is not the Internet the world needs, or the Internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back." - Bruce Schneier

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will Tuesday meet bosses of tech giants including Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter to discuss US spy agency surveillance and his notorious health care reform website.

Attackers used an authentication bypass vulnerability in Adobe's ColdFusion software as a stepping stone in an attack that infected web servers with malware.

A mobile botnet called MisoSMS is wreaking havoc on the Android platform, stealing personal SMS messages and exfiltrating them to attackers in China.

WASHINGTON -  [UPDATE] A US judge struck a first blow against the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records Monday, ruling it breaches citizens' privacy to an "almost Orwellian" degree that is probably unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON - The White House Monday renewed its demand for Edward Snowden to return home to face trial, after a top spy official floated the idea of an amnesty deal to plug his damaging intelligence leaks.

Defense contractor Raytheon announced on Monday that it has opened a new cyber facility in San Antonio, Texas. The new facility combines Raytheon's San Antonio-area cyber talent and its portfolio of cyber offerings together for "collaboration and smoother integration for its customers," the company said.

Researchers at Arbor Networks are warning Windows users to beware of "Bitcoin Alarm," a data-theft Trojan that masquerades as a legitimate utility to retrieve bitcoin price alerts.

Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a provider of cyber threat intelligence management solutions, recently added new workflow and data integration enhancements to its flagship product, ScoutVision.