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A malware campaign targeting online banking customers in Eastern Europe uses a mix of the old and the new as it swipes data from unsuspecting victims.

PARIS - France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from the United States after new spying allegations leaked by former US security contractor Edward Snowden.

WASHINGTON - The director of America's eavesdropping National Security Agency plans to retire next year but his departure is not connected to leaks from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, officials said Thursday.

DOHA - Qatari authorities have restored several government websites attacked by hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, who support President Bashar al-Assad's regime, local media reported Sunday. Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Technology (ictQatar) said in a statement carried by local media that it has "recovered all government websites hacked on Saturday."

WASHINGTON - US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he did not bring any secret documents with him to Russia when he fled there, ensuring Moscow had no access to the files.

The idea of viewing security from the endpoint out is part of having defense-in-depth, or layered security. This has a couple of pretty-straightforward advantages. First, external attackers must compromise multiple layers to get at protected systems and data.

Hackers have swiped a database full of customer information from PR Newswire in an attack that may be related to the group behind the attacks on Adobe Systems and other companies.

Mobile security company Skycure announced a mobile intrusion detection and prevention solution aimed at protecting iPhones and iPads by monitoring network traffic behavior and fixing suspicious activity.

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WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency is deeply involved in US drone strikes against Al-Qaeda militants, using electronic surveillance tools to track down terror suspects, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

FireEye, the recently gone public provider of threat protection solutions, unveiled a new cloud-based platform designed to address mobile threats.

The A-Z of professional Vulnerability Management:  A – is for Authenticated Scanning Choices, choices…

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency cybersnooping. US government attorneys argue that the Supreme Court does not have the jurisdiction to take the case, filed in July by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

TRUSTe, a global data privacy management (DPM) company, today announced an enhancement to its technology platform - TRUSTed Apps Enterprise Edition – and a partnership with RiskIQ, a leading provider of enterprise security solutions beyond the firewall.

CounterTack, a Watham, Mass-based endpoint security startup that provides real-time, cyber threat detection and forensics to the enterprise, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $12 million Series B round of funding.

JOHANNESBURG  - South African banks have lost millions of dollars this year in the biggest ever payment card fraud to hit the continent's wealthiest economy, the financial transactions body said Wednesday. A syndicate of fraudsters believed to be based in Europe hacked into the server of point-of-sale systems of retail shops, restaurants and fast-food eateries.

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Mocana, a provider of the mobile application and embedded security solutions, said that it has removed a key generation algorithm from its NanoCrypto embedded security engine, after it was reported that the algorithm could be compromised by the NSA.

Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) which addresses 127 vulnerabilities across many products, including 51 vulnerabilities in Java.