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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.

As the year comes to close and we look ahead to 2014, many of us turn our attention to New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight, quitting smoking or getting fit are all popular goals. But as our lives become more complex and harried, one resolution that I hear with increasing frequency is: I want to simplify my life.

NEW DELHI - Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the man responsible for drafting the rules still regularly uses Hotmail.

PARIS - An association grouping web giants such as Google and Facebook on Wednesday slammed the adoption in France of a bill that gives intelligence agencies wider access to personal data without prior authorization from a judge.

According to new market research from IDC Government Insights, overall IT security spending by the U.S. Federal Government will rise from $5.9 billion in 2012 to over $7.3 billion in 2017. In 2014, IT security spending by the Federal Government is expected to top $6.1 billion.

As we approach the end of the calendar year, a variety of predictions on information security and network security trends for 2014 will take place.

ATTINGHAUSEN - It looks like the ideal location for a James Bond thriller: a massive underground bunker in a secret location in the Swiss Alps used for keeping data safe from prying eyes.

Software vulnerabilities from two popular commercial zero-day brokerage houses give cyber-criminals and nation-state attackers advance access to as many as 100 software exploits on any given day, according to data released by NSS Labs.

MONTREAL - Canada has spied abroad on behalf of the US National Security Agency, according to a classified document cited by public broadcaster CBC Tuesday. Ottawa even opened up espionage posts overseas at the request of the US agency, CBC said, citing an NSA briefing paper leaked by fugitive former US government contractor Edward Snowden.

Venafi, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of enterprise key and certificate management solutions, has launched a new product that the company describes as a mobile device "kill switch" which gives IT security teams the ability to instantly cut off mobile access to applications and networks when suspicious activity is detected.

San Francisco, California-based Splunk, a provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a diverse set of sources, today announced it has acquired Cloudmeter, a provider of network data capture technologies.

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