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White House Staffer Sacked for Anti-administration Tweets: ReportsWASHINGTON - A White House national security official has been dismissed after being identified as the source of tweets insulting the administration that were sent under a fake name, news reports said on Tuesday.

Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, issued a report on Wednesday warning that energy firms are at an elevated risk of brute force attacks and malware/botnet threats.

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Websense released the latest version of its TRITON security platform on Tuesday, which includes new features designed to more effectively thwart targeted attacks.

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Being a successful chief information security officer takes more than an understanding of technology; today's CISO must also be a business leader who understands where IT security and business objectives meet.

Two new surveys separately shine a light on a security issue technology can't easily patch – users who don't follow the rules. 

STRASBOURG - European Union lawmakers on Tuesday urged heads of state and government to endorse a proposal for beefed-up data privacy laws ahead of a summit in Brussels later this week. Lawmakers voted late on Monday to enshrine a new "right to erasure" in a planned EU rewrite of privacy laws fit for the Internet age and given fresh impetus by the US spying scandal.

Security researchers have spotted a new variant of the Sazoora data-theft Trojan employing nifty tricks to avoid security sandboxes. According to Seculert CTO Aviv Raff, the malware has been fitted with packing and technical changes aimed at defeating on-premises sandboxes.

A critical vulnerability in NETGEAR's ReadyNAS network attached storage devices can allow attackers to gain root access without authentication, according to a warning from the Tripwire Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT).

"Offense sells tickets; Defense wins championships"~ Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant Jr.

The evolution of cyberattacks towards stealthy, targeted, persistent threats that use a cocktail of techniques is well recognized. This new set of attackers, consisting of criminal organizations, political groups and malicious hackers, are launching complex, sophisticated attacks that can wreak significant havoc not only on enterprise networks but critical government infrastructure worldwide.

Varonis Systems, a provider data governance and protection software for enterprises, today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering (IPO).

LONDON - Britain may recruit convicted computer hackers to a new military unit dedicated to combatting cyber-attacks, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said.

SEOUL - South Korea's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that senior members of its cyber warfare unit had been questioned over their possible involvement in a widening scandal over state interference in elections. Areas of the unit's headquarters were searched and several of its commanders questioned, a ministry official said.

VIENNA - The UN atomic agency said Tuesday that some of its computers were infected by malicious software, in its second embarrassing IT slip-up over the past year. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which holds highly sensitive information on its member states' nuclear facilities, said however that none of its data was compromised.

RSA’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Eddie Schwartz has left the security division of storage giant EMC and taken on the role of VP of Security at Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

WASHINGTON - America's ultra-secret National Security Agency reluctantly finds itself in the headlines amid a wave of disclosures from ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has exposed the service's vast electronic spying operation.

Two weeks ago, it was reported that police in Russia arrested the reputed author of the Blackhole Exploit kit, a man who went by the hacker alias 'Paunch.' In the aftermath, the number of spam campaigns using Blackhole to distribute malware fell off, and in the past two weeks have still not recovered.

Arbor Networks, a provider of DDoS and threat protection solutions, announced on Monday that they have collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization that maps global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.