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The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly exposed tens of thousands of social security numbers on the Web.

Bluebox co-founder Adam Ely joins Ryan Naraine to talk about the severity of the Android ma

EMC on Monday said that it has acquired privately held Aveksa Inc., a provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition places Aveksa into the RSA Security division of the storage giant, more specifically, RSA’s Identity Trust Management product group.

In the era of the public cloud, when employees (aka insiders) are frequently using consumerized applications such as Dropbox, Box and Google Drive to share and store data, security and risk professionals are at a tipping point. It is time for them to adopt a new security thought paradigm that focuses on the insider threat that employees create, not solely on protecting data itself.

Researchers at Symantec spotted a Java remote access tool being used as part of a campaign targeting government agencies by sending phishing emails with malicious attachments. The phishing emails are using recent news coverage about the NSA PRISM surveillance program as a lure. So far, the majority of the targets are located in the United States.

A new report from Aruba Networks has outlined a clear disparity between what employees want and what the IT department needs, particularly when it comes to the blending of personal and work-related information.

FORT MEADE - The US soldier who admitted handing over a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks asked a military judge Monday to toss out several charges against him on grounds prosecutors lack evidence.

Users of Nintendo's Club Nintendo website in Japan were warned recently that thousands of user accounts have been illegally accessed. According to Nintendo, roughly 15.5 million logins were attempted during the past month, with nearly 24,000 leading to successful access. Access means getting access to account holders' information, including real names, addresses, phone numbers and email information.

WASHINGTON - The United States and China on Monday aired out concerns about hacking, which has emerged as a major irritant between the world's two largest economies. US and Chinese officials met in Washington for the first session of a "cyber working group," two days before the countries hold their main annual talks.

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Seculert, an Israel-based provider of cloud-based threat detection solutions, has closed a $10 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).

Digital Alert Systems From Monroe Electronics Contain a Known SSH Private Key and are Vulnerable to Remote Attack

Morningstar, a financial investment house headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with operations spanning 27 countries, recently disclosed that a data breach occurred last year that impacted 184,000 of its customers. 

MOSCOW, July 6, 2013 (AFP) - Rogue intelligence technician Edward Snowden, who leaked information of widespread spying by the United States, has been holed up for 14 days in a Moscow airport awaiting asylum.

Microsoft has posted its advanced notification for Tuesday’s monthly round of patches, which will include six critical patches and one rated as important. Included in the roundup is a fix for an issue revealed in May by researcher Tavis Ormandy.

PARIS - France has denied a report it runs a vast electronic spying operation on its citizens, but newspaper Le Monde stuck by its story on Friday, warning that "French Big Brother is Watching".

The UK government and a group of British defense and security companies announced a new partnership on Friday that they say will bolster cyber security in the UK.

BRUSSELS - European security experts are set to meet their US counterparts in Washington next week as European Union nations, incensed by reports of US snooping, link negotiations on a mega EU-US trade deal with talks on intelligence-swapping.

PARIS - French secret services intercept all communications in France, stocking telephone and computer data for years, daily newspaper Le Monde reported Thursday amid an international uproar over spying by the United States.

TALLINN - IT hub Estonia on Wednesday urged the European Union to rely less on US firms for "cloud" data storage, amid tensions over claims of US spying and data surveillance.