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Researchers at Microsoft say a sophisticated family of rogue antivirus malware has reappeared using at least a dozen digital code-signing certificates.

Invincea, a provider of endpoint security solutions that leverage secure virtual containers to protect against advanced malware and other threats, today announced that it has raised $16 million in a Series C round of funding.

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WASHINGTON - US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden effectively stole the "keys to the kingdom" when he swiped more than 1.5 million top secret files, a senior National Security Agency official said in an interview aired Sunday.

LONDON - The European Union's banking watchdog on Friday issued a warning over virtual currency trading amid huge swings in the value of Bitcoin, a lack of regulation and money laundering risks.

WASHINGTON - A National Security Agency official said in an interview released Friday that he would be open to cutting an amnesty deal with intelligence leaker Edward Snowden if he agreed to stop divulging secret documents.

WASHINGTON - A review panel handed President Barack Obama a report on surveillance by US spy agencies Friday in the wake of explosive revelations on US phone and Internet sweeps by fugitive Edward Snowden.

Study Shows Cost Of Data Center Outage at $7,900 Per Minute

WASHINGTON - Chinese and Americans widely distrust each other but few among the public or elite see the other power as an enemy, a survey said.

WASHINGTON - A White House review will conclude that a sweeping US spy agency program to collect data on telephone calls and Internet use should continue but with new privacy safeguards, a report said Friday.

SecureAuth, a provider of 2-Factor authentication solutions, this week launched SecureAuth 2-Factor as a Service (2FaaS), a cloud-hosted authentication solution. SecureAuth 2FaaS provides flexible authentication options while maintaining user credentials on-premise, the Irvine, California-based company said.

Raytheon and GrammaTech Partner to Help U.S. Government Detect Malware in IT DevicesThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $4.8 million contract to two tech firms to help U.S. government agencies detect malicious code and hidden "backdoors" in commodity IT devices.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter on Thursday restored the ability to block unwanted followers from peering at posts, quickly reversing a policy change that triggered a barrage of criticism. "Earlier today, we made a change to the way the 'block' function of Twitter works," Twitter's Michael Sippey said in a blog post late Thursday in California.

Researchers for Trustwave's SpiderLabs have turned the flood lights on malware disguised as a module for Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) software.

Insider Threat Fears Exacerbated by Identity Management ChallengesA new survey of IT decision makers found that nearly half believe their employees would sell company data for the right price.

A Ukrainian national who pleaded guilty in 2009 to creating a popular online marketplace for selling stolen financial account data has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, the Department of Justice said Thursday.

Security researchers at Imperva are warning that cyber-criminals are taking advantage of hosted database services to set up command-and-control and drop servers for data exfiltration.

Hacker Was Selling Access to Supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for $50,000[Update] A Pennsylvania man was sentenced in Boston today to serve 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to hack into computer networks and sell access systems he and others compromised.