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WASHINGTON - Hackers spooked markets Tuesday after breaking into the Associated Press's Twitter account and falsely reporting President Barack Obama had been injured after two blasts at the White House. A brief alert on the news agency's @AP account read: "Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured."

SafeNet on Tuesday announced (limited) availability of the SafeNet Crypto Hypervisor, a new solution designed to help IT departments and service providers deliver on-demand, elastic key vaulting and encryption services to protect data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Much like washing the dishes after a good meal, the cleanup after a data breach can get nasty. Unfortunately, many businesses do not seem to be getting it right.

Open source software giant Red Hat, announced that it has completed seven Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certifications from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

"Effective Security is about Solving problems, Not Chasing Hype..."

Large-scale financial cybercrime and state-affiliated espionage dominated the security landscape in 2012, Verizon said in its latest data breach report.

Researchers at Trusteer say a notorious piece of financial malware is now hitting Twitter with a new mission – to break into the accounts of unsuspecting users.

The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for hacking three CBS Twitter feeds, and a San Diego radio station on Sunday. The compromised accounts were used to spread propaganda.

During the InfoSecurity Europe conference this week in London, Qualys and FireMon announced the integration of QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM) and FireMon Security Manager with Risk Analyzer.

Lookout, a mobile security firm in San Francisco, has discovered a new family of malware targeting Android, and based on Google Play stats – it’s been downloaded at least two million times, but that number could be as high as nine million.

Massive DDoS Attacks Are Overwhelming Appliances, ISPs, Carriers, and Content Delivery Networks. Prolexic Technologies, a provider of DDoS attack mitigation solutions, recently released its Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which revealed a significant jump in bandwidth used in the average DDoS attack.

SAN FRANCISCO - A US journalist charged with conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to break into and alter an online Los Angeles Times story said Monday he has been fired by Reuters. Matthew Keys, 26, sent out word via Twitter that the news agency had dismissed him.

No matter which way you slice and dice the numbers, the data center is typically one of the most costly items within an enterprise IT budget. The costs are high not only from a CapEx perspective but also from the day to day operations of keeping servers up and running.

Ionic Security, a security startup focused on enterprise cloud and mobility, announced that it has raised $9.4m in funding in a Series A-1 investment round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). 

Google is adding an additional layer to Chrome’s defenses, which are designed to prevent potentially unwanted extensions from being installed. The latest enhancements build on the previous ones, which focused on silent installations.

WASHINGTON - The two brothers suspected of the Boston bombings, Chechens who grew up in America, fit the profile of a new generation of jihadists who are radicalized online and strike in their home countries.

If Threat Information is Available But not Fully and Effectively Utilized, Then Knowledge is Not Power

CISPA - the controversial cybersecurity bill centered on information sharing, deemed to be vague and entirely broken when it comes to civil liberties, has cleared the House and now heads to the Senate. However, as it has be before, it may die in the Senate due to the chance of a presidential veto.

ACLU Files Complaint With FTC Against Mobile Carriers Over Android Security Updates

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of news about the bombings at the Boston Marathon and Wednesday's explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas in an onslaught of malicious emails infecting users with malware.