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LONDON - Britain has been operating a secret listening post from its Berlin embassy, a stone's throw from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, the Independent newspaper claimed on Tuesday.

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Microsoft released an advisory today warning users about a new zero-day under attack in targeted campaigns occurring in the Middle East and South Asia.

WASHINGTON - Apple on Tuesday released details of government requests for its data while protesting a "gag order" that limits what can be disclosed about US national security orders. The iPhone and iPad maker followed the lead of other US tech giants and released its first report on requests from governments around the world.

Targeted attacks and data breaches are top concerns for companies, but confidence among IT professionals that they have the ability to stop them has fallen, according to a new survey from Bit9.

Microsoft has expanded its security bounty program in the hopes of keeping sophisticated Windows exploits off the black market.

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MANILA - Some 100 masked members of the hacking group Anonymous Philippines marched on parliament Tuesday, denouncing corruption and pledging more cyber attacks, a week after 30 government websites were paralyzed.

As part of my job, I spend a good deal of my waking hours thinking about information security and sharing my findings with IT security practitioners. What are the latest techniques we see from attackers, and what sorts of techniques or policies work best to mitigate them? And as attacks have become more sophisticated, it has also become increasingly clear that security technologies and solutions absolutely must benefit from one another and work together as a platform.

Researchers from Cisco have alerted customers and the Internet community of a massive spike in TCP source port zero traffic that started at 01:00 UTC on Saturday, Nov. 2 and lasted roughly three hours. According to Cisco, it was was the largest spike of reconnaissance activity they have seen this year.

FishNet Security, a provider of information security solutions, announced on Monday that it has acquired of TorreyPoint, a full-service network and infrastructure consultancy based in Sunnyvale, California.

HONG KONG - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said reports that the US government spied on the Internet giant's data centers were "outrageous" and potentially illegal if proved true, in an interview Monday.

While the concept of sandboxing isn’t new, it wasn’t until a few years ago that it entered the mainstream network security vocabulary and enterprises began using on-premises sandboxing appliances to test suspicious executables for malware. And while the results have been impressive -- especially compared to systems that rely exclusively on signature-based antivirus software -- there has been some criticism of late with respect to sandboxing’s potential and, especially, its limitations.

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SINGAPORE - The Singapore government said Monday it was on "heightened vigilance" following threats from the activist hackers' group Anonymous, but denied that any of its websites had already been compromised.

SYDNEY - Australia and the United States mounted a joint surveillance operation on Indonesia during 2007 UN climate talks in Bali, a report said Sunday in revelations likely to exacerbate strained ties with Jakarta.

BERLIN - Germany and the United States are to strike a two-way deal not to spy on each other in the wake of the diplomatic furore sparked by the Edward Snowden revelations, a German newspaper reported.

LONDON - Spy agencies in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden are carrying out mass surveillance of online and phone traffic in collaboration with Britain, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper reported Saturday.

WASHINGTON - Six of the biggest US technology firms are urging Congress to rein in the National Security Agency by requiring more transparency about surveillance and improved privacy protections.

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