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Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 29, of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the charges against him, stemming from his participation in a 2011 scheme to steal payment card data from point of sale (POS) systems.

Syria was cut off from the Internet on Tuesday, and remains offline as of Wednesday morning, according to several US Internet firms and the State Department.

Cyber-criminals are increasingly setting up shop in Latin American and the Caribbean to take advantage of low security awareness among users and ineffective law enforcement, according to a recent report from Trend Micro.

While Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks bring the promise of relieving traffic jams for mobile operators, they also entail new security risks.

THE HAGUE - Dutch government websites were paralyzed for several hours overnight after a mass cyber attack which targeted several ministerial sites, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

BANGKOK - Hackers infiltrated the website of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's office on Wednesday, posting offensive comments in the latest attack on her character.

Several media sites, including two Washington, DC-based radio stations, have been compromised to infect unsuspecting visitors' systems with fake antivirus software. 

Smaller open source projects tend to be more secure than proprietary applications, but the opposite is the case for software with more than a million lines of code, according to a new report from Coverity.

Solving the challenges around passwords has received increasing attention, with some in the industry just recently forming the Fast Identity Online Alliance.

New Smart Grid Solutions from Cisco Will Help Modernize and Secure National Critical Infrastructure Cisco has expanded its "smart grid" portfolio with specialized networking equipment to help power-generation utilities modernize and secure the electrical grid.

Having a safe doesn't do much good if it is left open. Yet the safe where organizations house their data is sometimes left just as unsecure.

There is an old saying in the business world, that if you want to get ahead, don’t bring your boss problems, bring him or her solutions. The message being that you were hired based on your experience and your ability to get the job done, not to create more problems. The same can be said when it comes to investing in security solutions. When budget requests come before the C-suite for new technology, they want to be assured that a...

BEIJING - Beijing on Tuesday dismissed an annual Pentagon report that accused it of widespread cyberspying on the US government, rejecting it as an "irresponsible" attempt to drum up fear of China as a military threat.

Source Address Validation Helps Ensure that a Resolver Only Receives Queries from Valid Source Addresses Before Sending Back Responses...

China's Cyber Spying Targets US Government: Pentagon ReportWASHINGTON - China has engaged in widespread cyber espionage in a bid to extract information about the US government's foreign policy and military plans, said a Pentagon report issued Monday.

Georgetown University said on Monday that it would launch a new Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) later this month that will that will research cyber threats and other security and technology issues.

Attackers are targeting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer in a campaign that has hit as many as 10 different websites, including the U.S. Department of Labor site.

NEW YORK - Dell said Monday it had acquired cloud software firm Enstratius as part of the computer maker's efforts to diversify and reduce its dependence on the slow-growing PC segment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A group of researchers from Northwestern University and North Carolina State University tested ten of the most popular AV products on Android, and discovered that they were easily fooled by common obfuscation techniques.

According to a new report from Panda Labs, 80% of the malware infections discovered in Q1 2013 were Trojans. These numbers are similar to the trends from 2012, where Trojans were the majority of infection types worldwide.