SecurityWeek

LAHORE, Pakistan - In a dingy Internet cafe, Abdullah gets round the censors with one click and logs onto YouTube, officially banned for a year and at the heart of Pakistan's cyberwar for control of the web.

Vodafone Germany said on Thursday that an attacker with insider knowledge had stolen the personal data of two million of its customers from a server located in Germany.

SAN FRANCISCO - With the swipe of a finger, Apple could jumpstart a new era of smartphone security and strip away fear of tending to banking or other business on mobile devices.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer on Wednesday said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with US spy demands for data.

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency shares raw surveillance data with Israel without first removing information about US citizens, according to a document leaked to the Guardian by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

 Oracle Rolls Out New Monitoring, Security Features for Java SE 7

Kaspersky Lab has uncovered details of an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign targeting South Korean think tanks.

Fixmo, a provider of mobile security and risk management solutions, announced on Tuesday that its portfolio of enterprise mobility management solutions now supports the new Apple iOS 7 operating system and the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.

Fresh off of raising $24 million in a Series A funding round, security startup BitSight Technologies on Tuesday launched its first offering designed to deliver ratings on the information security effectiveness of organizations.

WASHINGTON - US intelligence officials declassified documents Tuesday revealing the National Security Agency violated privacy rules for three years when it sifted phone records of Americans with no suspected links to terrorists.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Alleged US espionage targeting the Brazilian oil company Petrobras will not delay an oil field auction scheduled for next month, a government official was quoted as saying Tuesday.

BRASÍLIA - Alleged US spying on the communications of Brazil's president have brought negotiations on buying US warplanes to a halt, a Brazilian government source said Tuesday. The talks have been going on for years, and got a nudge with a visit from Vice President Joe Biden in May.

WASHINGTON - After a bruising shareholder battle, Dell appears set for a new path under a private equity buyout aimed at reviving the fortunes of the former number one computer maker.

Joining Microsoft who patched 47 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, and Adobe who issued security fixes for its products, BlackBerry on Tuesday issued four fixes that affect third party software running on its mobile devices.

Security researchers at Russia-based firm Group-IB estimates that the size of the Russian cybercrime market reached $1.938 billion in 2012.

Microsoft patched 47 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio today as part of a massive Patch Tuesday update.

HP announced a new suite of IT services designed to help organizations protect and manage sensitive data while helping to reduce risk, improve life cycle data management, and manage compliance with new and existing federal regulatory requirements.

New Capabilities Give Customers More Control to Optimize Website Performance

BMW Accused of Spying on Paris Electric Car SchemePARIS - The group that runs Paris car-sharing scheme Autolib' said Tuesday it had filed a criminal complaint accusing German carmaker BMW of using spies to gather information on its electric cars.

Stepping back from the day-to-day enterprise view on cyber security we normally discuss in this column, I want to focus on the more macro impact of cyber security from a global perspective. While they teach you in law school to never ask a question that you don’t already have the definitive answer for, I’m going to go against this logic and pose the question of whether or not cyber has been the global equalizer to my fellow security experts.