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BRASÍLIA - Brazil-based American reporter Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday that he had received more than 15,000 secret US government documents from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

The amount of malicious and high-risk Google Android  apps jumped by more than 40 percent during the past few months, according to a new report from Trend Micro.

RIGA - Latvia agreed Tuesday to extradite a programmer to the United States to stand trial for his alleged role in a global cyber theft ring that broke into a million computers.

August is a special month for those of us who live in the San Francisco area, because it’s when the masses of geeks descend on Moscone Center for one of the biggest virtualization conferences in the world. Yes, I’m talking about VMworld.

Ambiguity often abounds when it comes to the security requirements contained in contracts with software-as-a-service [SaaS] vendors, but there are minimum steps users can take to get what they want, according to industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.

More information is trickling out about a Firefox vulnerability used to compromise some users of the Tor network as speculation about the origin of the attack continues to swirl.

Home is where the hack is, at least when it came to this year's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. This week, researchers shined a light on how devices ranging from smart TVs to thermostats can be compromised by an attacker, and the increasing role IT security plays in the physical security of the home.

BEIJING - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has hit back at allegations by a former CIA chief that the company spies for Beijing, labeling them "defamatory" and "baseless".

SCADA systems used on oil rigs and other areas of the oil industry are using outdated networking protocols that can easily be compromised, SCADA experts told attendees at the Black Hat security conference.

LAS VEGAS – BLACK HAT 2013 - A pair of researchers demonstrated how to create a large botnet capable of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks or sending out large volumes of spam just by buying an online ad.

AlienVault, a provider of security management and threat intelligence solutions, has launched a free service that enables security teams to monitor and track their organization’s IP and domain reputation.

Synack, a startup that has built a platform for “crowdsourced security testing”, announced on Thursday that it has closed a $1.5 million seed round of financing.

MOSCOW - The founder of Russia's most popular social network VKontakte on Thursday offered a job to Edward Snowden, after the US intelligence leaker left a Moscow airport with his new asylum papers.

Praetorian, an Austin, Texas-based provider of information security solutions, has launched a new cloud-based platform that leverages the computing power of Amazon AWS in order to crack password hashes in a simple fashion.

MOSCOW - Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday left the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for over a month, after being granted one year's asylum in Russia, his lawyer said.

LAS VEGAS - After demonstrating how easily rogue femtocells can be used to intercept voice calls and text messages, researchers from iSec Partners called on carriers to stop using the network devices altogether.

Charging your iPhone just got a bit riskier. LAS VEGAS - At Black Hat USA Wednesday in Las Vegas, a trio of researchers from The Georgia Institute of Technology demonstrated how to abuse USB functionality of Apple iPhones to compromise the device. Using a Beagleboard, the researchers built a proof-of-concept malicious charger they refer to as Mactans.

A year ago, NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander spoke at the DefCon security conference and made a direct appeal for the hacker community to help secure the Web.

Qualys, a provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, announced that starting tomorrow, a beta version of its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) will be available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users.

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia  - A secret surveillance system known as XKeyscore allows US intelligence to monitor "nearly everything a typical user does on the Internet," according to leaked documents published Wednesday.