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Akamai Releases Q1 2013 ‘State of the Internet’ Report

New Elastic Sandbox Enables Malware to Be Analyzed Over Long Time Periods and Geographic Locations

Cisco announced that it has agreed to acquire Sourcefire, a fast growing provider of network security solutions, for roughly $2.7 billion in a cash deal.

Blue Coat Systems and AirWatch have teamed up to offer an interoperable solution designed to let customers update and push content and security policies to mobile devices across extended corporate environments.

Fortinet’s New Network Security Appliances Bring Performance Improvements, Enhanced Security Coverage, Integrated Wireless Controllers, PoE and L2Switching

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government Monday announced a probe into ties between its secret services and US agencies whose sweeping online surveillance was revealed by fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.

A new study by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) named a staggering figure as the true annual cost of malicious cyber activity to the U.S. economy - $100 billion. According to the study, which is entitled 'Estimating the Cost of Cybercrime and Cyber Espionage', as many as 508,000 jobs in the U.S. are lost as a result of malicious cyber activity.

Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam botnet using subtle tricks to increase resiliency while staying under the radar of spam fighters. The botnet, which Trend Micro dubbed StealRat, uses a mix of compromised websites and machines as part of its operation. 

If you are the domain manager for a major enterprise and are still using a consumer-grade registrar for your company’s main domain names, you should lose your job. Period.

Apple said on Sunday that its developers website was taken down after being hacked last week, and warned developers that while data was encrypted, personal information may have been stolen by the attackers.The following email was sent to developers on Sunday.

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out strongly in favor of an international agreement to protect electronic data, following revelations by fugitive former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden about US surveillance program PRISM.

SYDNEY - The former head of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency Michael Hayden said Friday it "goes without saying" that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei spies for Beijing.

A staffer with the Elecontric Frontier Foundation is warning that Google Android's "Back up my data" feature sends WiFi passwords and other private information out to Google in plaintext.

NEW YORK CITY - An upcoming book by Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who was among the first to reveal details of the US government's vast surveillance programs, promises fresh revelations, his publisher said Thursday.

HP has added unified security analytics for big data to its HP ArcSight portfolio this week, in an effort to help enterprises detect advanced persistent threats faster and more effectively.

Network Solutions says it has bounced back from a distributed denial-of-service attack that took down some of the websites it hosts for hours.

Ping Identity, a provider of identify management solutions, this week announced that it has closed a massive funding round of $44 million, led by W Capital Partners and DFJ Growth.

WASHINGTON - A coalition of Internet firms and activist organizations asked the US government Thursday to issue "transparency reports" on its online and phone data collection programs which have sparked an outcry.

The ability to travel back in time has captured the imaginations of generations around the world for hundreds of years. One of the more universally-recognized examples is the ‘Back to the Future’ film trilogy which grossed nearly $1 billion US dollars in theaters worldwide. Being able to go back to a previous time, observe what happened and then learn from those events to improve the present and future is a powerful notion.

iOS apps are just as invasive and curious about user data as Android apps are, BitDefender researchers found after analyzing more than half a million mobile apps.