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Briton Charged in Hacking of US Government Networks WASHINGTON - A British national has been indicted on charges of hacking into the computer systems of the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, NASA and other agencies, American officials said Monday.

The First step in Defending Against Malicious Code Infections is Ensuring that a Strong Trust Infrastructure is in Place and Well Secured. 

WASHINGTON - Europeans should be grateful for US spying operations because they keep them safe, US lawmakers said Sunday, urging allies to improve their own intelligence and oversight efforts.

MADRID - US security services tracked 60.5 million telephone calls in Spain in a single month, according to a leaked document published in a Spanish newspaper Monday as European outrage deepened over US snooping.

MEXICO CITY - Government leaders spied on by the United States should demand to see the intercepted communications, a former Mexican foreign minister and presidential adviser said. "Those affected have every right to demand, besides apologies, the evidence," said Rosario Green, who was foreign minister from 1998 to 2000.

BERLIN - German spy chiefs will travel to the United States next week to demand answers following allegations that US intelligence has been tapping Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, as a row over US snooping threatened to hurt transatlantic ties.

Vinnie Liu from Bishop Fox joins Ryan Naraine on the podcast to warn businesses about the security risks associated with the new LinkedIn Intro application.

WASHINGTON - A former CIA and National Security Agency chief was overheard criticizing President Barack Obama's administration Thursday in what he thought was an anonymous interview, which instead ended up on Twitter. Retired general Michael Hayden made the mistake of giving a series of interviews to reporters by phone "on background" while riding a train, in public.

PARIS - France believed the United States attempted to hack into its president's communications network, a leaked US intelligence document published on Friday suggests.

After my last column complaining about the hype to delivery ratio in Big Data for security analytics, I seem to have convinced some people that I’m anti-Big-Data. That’d be like ordering the tide not to come in (and as far as we can tell, Cnut was misunderstood when he tried that too). Let me take the other side this time – what do we know about effective use of security analytics?

WASHINGTON - US spies eavesdropped on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after White House, Pentagon and State Department officials gave them the numbers, The Guardian reported Thursday.

Researchers at Websense have uncovered an extensive cybercrime campaign using the Mevade malware that appears to be targeting businesses and government agencies in several countries, including the United States.

Tufin Technologies launched a rebranded suite of products this week as it outlined a new vision expanding beyond its bread and butter of firewall management and deeper into the area of security policy orchestration.

BRUSSELS - Europe's leaders united Thursday behind Germany and France as an escalating row over claims of US snooping on its traditional allies overshadowed a key summit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose mobile phone was reportedly the latest target of covert surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA), set the tone.

BERLIN - Germany summoned the US ambassador Thursday amid outrage over suspicions that Washington tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, as she faced allegations she had naively played down the NSA spying scandal.

Bromium, a malware protection company focused on the enterprise, announced this week that it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round.

If you want to remain connected—and protected—the cloud is the only way. Why? There’s a ubiquity and cohesiveness to the cloud. It connects geographies. It connects devices. It’s where information sharing happens, and can happen at scale. In fact, the cloud is the only place that can provide the scale and elasticity (without the capital expense) that’s required in a connected world where new devices are appearing by the dozens daily.

Adobe announced on Wednesday that its popular Flash Player is now protected by an OS X App Sandbox as part of this week’s release of Safari in OS X Mavericks, giving Safari users on Apple's latest OS the ability to view Flash Player content while benefiting from added security protections.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico ordered an investigation Tuesday into allegations that the United States spied on the emails of its president and his predecessor, the latest diplomatic wrangle stemming from America's intelligence-gathering efforts.

DB Networks, a database security company, has introduced a new security appliance that provides an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) specifically designed to detect and block SQL injection attacks.