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AT&T announced an expanded set of managed security solutions (MSS) and new capabilities on Tuesday, including a new mobile security solution set to be available later this year.

New Features in HyTrust Appliance 3.5 Help Reduce Operational Risk in Multi-Tenant Private Clouds

Adware is being spread alongside Mevade malware variants hitting users in the U.S. and Japan, according to Trend Micro.

Silent Circle, a startup providing private encrypted communications solutions, on Monday announced new bundled service offerings for its secure communications platform.

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said Monday it will outlaw the dissemination of information on the Internet for the benefit of "terrorist" groups, in line with a decision taken by Gulf Arab monarchies. The official SPA news agency said the cabinet approved the "unified legislation against cybercrime," which the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) adopted in December.

WASHINGTON - Google and Yahoo filed court requests Monday to disclose more about US government's national security data requests, saying media reports on the matter have been misleading and harmful.

CrowdStrike, a security firm focused detection and mitigation of targeted attacks, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B financing, bringing the total raised by the Irvine, California-based company to $56 million.

Hackers are increasingly trying to exploit PHP 'SuperGlobal' variables as a way to compromise their targets, according to a new report from Imperva.

RIO DE JANEIRO - A leaked US intelligence document highlighted Google, Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and the French foreign ministry as "targets", TV Globo has reported. TV Globo said Sunday it obtained the information from Glenn Greenwald, a blogger and columnist for the Guardian newspaper, who got secret files from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Investors, markets and analysts are signaling another round in increased security spending in the elusive quest for the security “easy button.” As cyber driven risk and impact to the bottom line grows, the once foreign information security terminology is now becoming a common vernacular amongst C-suite managers. Cybersecurity has arrived and its implications are an integral part of modern-day business decisions.

BERLIN - Thousands took to the streets in Berlin Saturday in protests against Internet surveillance activities by the US National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies, and the German government's perceived lax reaction to them.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo received some 29,000 government requests for data on its users this year, with almost half coming from the United States, according to the company's global transparency report released Friday.

WASHINGTON - Leaks revealing how American spies have circumvented encryption for online communications are "not news" because code-breaking is part of their job, US intelligence said Friday.

BRASÍLIA - US President Barack Obama has promised answers by Wednesday to allegations of US spying on Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, her government said Friday. Obama made the commitment to Rousseff, who met with the US president on Thursday on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Russia, the Brazilian presidency said in a statement.

NAIROBI - The Twitter account of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents was suspended Friday, the second time this year the Islamists have been pushed off the site. A message from Twitter on the English-language @HSMPress1 account read that the account was suspended, without elaborating.

Quick, what’s the hardest part of being a security pariah? None of the other pariahs want to be seen with you. Though a joke, it sums-up how security, within IT, has and continues to operate. From the beginning of IT, security has consistently been a bolt-on afterthought, and we have only ourselves and everyone else to blame.

Cyber-attackers have stepped up efforts to use the G-20 Summit as bait to snare users.

Microsoft is planning to release 14 security bulletins next week as part of its Patch Tuesday update, including four critical updates for Internet Explorer, Windows, Outlook and SharePoint.

WASHINGTON - US and British intelligence agencies have cracked the encryption that secures a wide range of online communications including emails, banking transactions and phone conversations, according to newly leaked documents.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say a sophisticated piece of Google Android malware is being blasted out via a mobile botnet spamming victims with text messages containing malicious links.