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WASHINGTON - The United States should consider curbs on Chinese investment or even offensive operations against hackers to address the growing toll from intellectual property theft, a report said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - A high-powered commission said Wednesday that intellectual property theft was costing the United States the equivalent of all its exports to Asia and urged a tougher approach to China.

According to the Associated Press, officials at Guantanamo Bay prison halted access to Wi-Fi, as well as social media this week, due to security concerns that arose after Anonymous pledged to stand in solidarity with prisoners who are currently on a hunger strike.

On Tuesday, during the House’s Energy and Commerce Committee's cybersecurity hearing, Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released a report detailing the risks faced by the nation’s power grid. According to responses sent to the lawmakers, the situation is as bad as expected, and could get worse unless changes are made.

Accuvant Labs has published details concerning a Java vulnerability exploited during the Pwn2Own contest earlier this year. The flaw was patched in April by Oracle, but for the curious, the security firm is providing additional details, including the exact code used by Joshua J. Drake.

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Wednesday it was stepping up security measures for the popular messaging service following a series of high-profile breaches by hackers hitting media organizations and others. Twitter said it would implement a new login verification system, "a form of two-factor authentication" which is "a second check to make sure it's really you" when a user signs in.

JOHANNESBURG - Hackers cracked into the website of South Africa's police and downloaded information that could leave whistleblowers vulnerable, police and a government data agency said Wednesday.

Attackers are stepping up their development of a piece of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware tied to attacks across the world.

Blue Coat Systems is no longer the Web filtering company you knew it as. The company, founded in 1996 as CacheFlow, has come full circle from going public in 1999, to being taken private by an investor group led by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at roughly $1.3 billion.

Canadian security company Fixmo unveiled its next-generation mobile security and enterprise mobility management platform to protect sensitive data on enterprise networks.

Fortinet has introduced a new operating system for its FortiWeb Web application firewalls.

The majority of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are either unaware of, or defenseless, against the most common threats to their networks posted by employee-owned mobile devices, according to Marble Security.

Security concerns tied to protecting massive amounts of data have kept enterprises from starting or finishing cloud or big data projects - but some of the concerns may not be as serious as some believe. According to a survey of 300 IT professionals by Voltage Security at the InfoSecurity Europe conference, 76 percent of senior-level IT and security respondents said the inability to secure data across big data initiatives concerned them, and 56 percent admitted those concerns kept them from...

For those who read my columns on a regular basis you know that I don’t shy away from taking on the security industry when I believe it’s warranted. Full transparency is something I believe in strongly and is a trait that our customers and partners have come to rely upon.

AVG Technologies announced that it has acquired PrivacyChoice, an organization that helps make privacy easier through a variety of Web and Browser-based tools.

Anyone who’s a Game of Thrones fan knows that fortifying the castle walls is essentially useless if the structures and people inside are not equipped to proactively fend off attacks. Winterfell, after all, was taken by a handful of men who came quietly at night -- and so can your data if no one is armed, trained and prepared to protect it.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has issued a request for information (RFI) that it hopes will help make the federal government's cybersecurity more resilient.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a system that will enable classified vulnerability data to be shared with the private sector. The information, primarily Zero-Day vulnerability data, will be sold via a select group of service providers.

On Monday, Sourcefire announced improvements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) portfolio, which aims to offer customers more visibility into attack activity. This additional insight, the company said, will enable clients to detect, remediate, and control malware outbreaks faster.

Researchers at Trend Micro shined a light on a cyber-espionage campaign that infected nearly 12,000 unique IP addresses spread across more than 100 countries.