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WASHINGTON - US mobile carriers provided some one million records to law enforcement in 2012 related to warrants, wiretaps, location data and "cell-tower dumps," documents released by a US senator showed.

Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, on Monday announced the release of its next generation Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) Platform.

Late last week, Microsoft announced it had struck a blow against the ZeroAccess botnet in a joint operation with law enforcement and technology company A10 Networks.

Network security firm Fortinet announced on Monday that it would buy back up to $200 million of its stock as part of a share repurchase program expected to run through December 31, 2014.

US, Britain 'Spying on Virtual World': Report WASHINGTON - US and British intelligence have been spying on the global online gaming world because they fear terrorists could use the hugely popular platform to plot attacks, a report said Monday.

Google announced on Saturday that it detected a French government agency using unauthorized digital certificates for several Google domains to perform man-in-the-middle attacks on a private network.

WASHINGTON - Eight leading US-based technology companies on Monday called on Washington to overhaul its surveillance laws following the revelations of online eavesdropping from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

NSS Labs, a security research and product-testing firm, this week announced that it has raised a Series A funding round from LiveOak Venture Partners. While the company did not disclose the amount raised in the public announcement, a company spokesperson told SecurityWeek the amount totaled $4 million.

SINGAPORE - Singapore's central bank has called on financial institutions to tighten up cyber security after a database on elite customers of Standard Chartered Bank was compromised.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, has released a new white paper report that explains the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) securi

Microsoft is planning to release 11 security bulletins next week as part of the year's final Patch Tuesday update.

A new study shows that non-approved SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications may be more pervasive in the workplace than IT departments realize.

VIENNA - Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favorite ice cream flavor: do you know much of this personal information is out there and available for sale? And what if it could affect your job applications, whether you can rent a house or how high your insurance premium will be?

“We all want to live in a world that is safe and secure, but we also want to live in a country that is protected by the Constitution.” - Brad Smith, Microsoft

STOCKHOLM - Sweden has provided the US with "unique" intelligence on Russia's leadership, according to new documents leaked by US fugitive Edward Snowden and revealed Thursday by Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

 A risk-based Approach to Security Can Help Organizations Reduce Risk, Lower Costs, Improve Response Readiness, and Increase Risk-posture Visibility... 

Former Microsoft Executive Amit Mital Named Chief Technology Officer at Symantec

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency is collecting some 5 billion records a day on the location of mobile phones around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

As IT security practitioners struggle to defend against APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), a new study by the Ponemon Institute finds malware installed via zero-day exploits presents the biggest threat to corporate data.