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NEW YORK - The New Yorker magazine on Wednesday unveiled a new online system for anonymous whistleblower tips, based on technology developed by the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and a former hacker.

AirWatch, a provider of mobile security and mobile device management (MDM) solutions, on Tuesday announced that it has taken a $25 million investment from VC firm Accel Partners. 

PARIS - In this episode of Security Conversations, Ryan Naraine talks to security researcher Stephen Ridley

Despite four takedowns in five years, PushDo is back, complete with new features designed to make the botnet more resilient and elusive, researchers said.

On Wednesday, Barracuda Networks released version 7.8 of their Web Application Firewall (WAF), which was developed with the aim of lowering the impact Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have on an organization.

McAfee pulled the curtain back on a new biometric protection suite on Tuesday, promising uniform data protection across multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android.

During the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit this week, FBI Executive Assistant Director Richard McFeely said that the agency is pushing a broader effort to communicate more with victims of cybercrime.

Cyber-criminals are actively updating the Travnet malware and improving the botnet's infrastructure to boost its document-stealing capabilities, researchers found.

CORE Security, a provider of security intelligence and penetration testing tools, this week announced a significant upgrade to CORE Insight Enterprise, the company’s vulnerability management solution.

Would you mind a stranger taking your picture as you eat ice cream on a bench outside? What if your spouse and kids were also in the shot? Kind of creepy. Lots of folks have a negative reaction to stranger taking their pictures. They feel their rights have been impinged. But the rights you feel you deserve and the rights you have under the law can be very different. Let’s see what rights you really have with your image.

Bitcoin’s wiki defines it to be “an experimental, decentralized digital currency”. As with any experimental system, if it proves to be successful then it is usually followed by a finalized product which builds on the parts that worked well on the experiment and removes the parts proved to be irrelevant.

Researchers have uncovered a targeted attack against political rights activists in China in which a malicious Word document exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to take control of the victim computer.

Microsoft's coding practices and methodology complies with an international standard for developing secure software, the company said Tuesday.

Microsoft released 10 security bulletins today, including two critical bulletins that address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer [IE].

Non-profit organization SAFECode unveiled a series of new training modules to help enterprises train software developers in-house to write secure code.

Researchers at Symantec have reported a wave of attacks that take an interesting approach to social engineering – a telephone call.

MOSCOW - Russia on Tuesday said it had detained an alleged American CIA agent working undercover at the US embassy who was discovered with a large stash of money as he was trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer.

The two card payment processors compromised by hackers as part of a massive international fraud scheme have been identified as ElectraCard Services and enStage, Inc. 

Researchers have discovered a new backdoor targeting Apache on cPanel-based servers. The attackers have replaced the Apache binary with a malicious one in such a way that it makes it nearly impossible to detect.

Researchers at Microsoft are reporting a wave of malicious browser extensions attempting to hijack Facebook profiles. The malware, known as Trojan:JS/Febipos.A, specifically targets Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users. As of late last week, the malware seemed to be focused on infecting users from Brazil or Portugal.