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What are the New Considerations for Securing a Software Defined Network?

Risk Based Security, the primary sponsor of the Open Security Foundation (OSF), has disclosed three SCADA vulnerabilities that impact two of the market’s largest firms – Rockwell Automation and Schneider Electric.

WASHINGTON - Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3D printable handgun found a safe harbor Friday at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a US government attempt to pull them off the Internet.

Information Sharing: The Wrong Information in the Wrong Hands Could Birth a Threat that Simply Can’t be Handled....

160,000 Social Security Numbers, 1 Million Driver License Numbers Potentially Accessed in Web Server Compromise

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, has issued an advisory pertaining to a spike in Phishing attacks against telecommunications customers.

It may seem like an unlikely source for practical advice and a solid incident report, but after their Twitter feed was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), The Onion (a popular satire news rag) posted solid details on the incident without the usual jokes.

On Wednesday, domain registrar Name.com sent an email to all of their customers, disclosing a security incident that may have compromised some sensitive information. Financial data however, was not impacted due to the company’s security measures.

Microsoft is prepping fixes for close to three dozen vulnerabilities for this month's Patch Tuesday, including critical issues affecting Internet Explorer.

Using Google dorks has become a staple on the list of tactics by attackers to find vulnerable websites and servers. But a new do-it-yourself tool is seeking to make website hacking via Google dorks even easier.

Just days after announcing that it would acquire Finnish firewall maker Stonesoft for $389 million, McAfee on Thursday released a new network intrusion prevention system (IPS) appliance based on technology from its parent, Intel.

WELLINGTON - The reclusive head of Chinese technology giant Huawei Thursday rejected US cyber-security fears that have seen Washington effectively freeze his company out of government contracts, reports said.

A bi-partisan group of Senators introduced a new bill to fight cyber-espionage and intellectual property theft by foreign countries.

New 600 Series Appliances Bring Enterprise-grade Security Features to Small Business

Adobe on Wednesday night, issued a Security Advisory (APSA13-03) for a newly disclosed critical security vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion.

Microsoft on Wednesday released a one-click Fix it to help protect customers from a recently-disclosed security vulnerability (CVE-2013-1347) affecting Internet Explorer 8 that was used in recent watering hole attacks that hit several sites including the website for the U.S. Department of Labor.

THE HAGUE - A Dutchman arrested in Spain last month in connection with an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, has been extradited to the Netherlands where he appeared before a judge on Wednesday, Dutch prosecutors said.

Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle, researchers for Cylance, an Irvine, California-based security firm, discovered that Google was using an outdated version of the Niagara framework building management system.

Organizations underestimate how cyber-attackers can take advantage of privileged accounts for malicious purposes, according to a new survey.