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Tenable Network Security, a provider of network security and vulnerability management solutions, on Thursday announced new real-time security and compliance intelligence capabilities for its SecurityCenter Continuous View (CV) platform.

Trust is the Foundation of all Relationships. When Trust is Compromised, Business Stops.

Microsoft released new data today as part of its latest Security Intelligence Report volume 14 (SIRv14), which showed that 2.5 out of 10 computers on average do not use up-to-date Antivirus.

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday cancelled a new combat medal for US troops who launch drone strikes or cyber attacks after a torrent of criticism from veterans and lawmakers.

WASHINGTON - Google suffered disruptions on several of its cloud-based services including Google Mail for about two hours Wednesday for reasons that were not disclosed. The apps status dashboard of the world's most popular search engine indicated "service disruptions" for Google Mail, Google Drive, Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets and Google Presentations.

The Obama Administration remains committed to the need for cyber-security legislation that establishes a mechanism for sharing cyber-threat-related data, but the current House bill making its way through the House of Representatives is not the answer, according to a strongly worded White House memo.

Researchers from Seculert have discovered a new malware they dubbed "Magic", due to "magic code" used within a custom communication protocol that the threat uses to communicate with its command and control servers.

KUWAIT CITY - Cyber activists hacked into Kuwait's information ministry website and posted a speech that earned an opposition leader a five-year prison term, the ministry said on Wednesday.

LAS VEGAS – Symantec’s CEO, Steve Bennett, told a packed house during its own Vision 2013 conference, that his company is changing. His keynote presentation rehashed many of the new strategies that were discussed earlier this year, only now they were delivered with a sharp frankness to a room full of customers and potential customers.

Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April, which addressed a whopping 128 security issues across multiple product families. 

AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, today announced that its Unified Security Management (USM) suite is now available as a virtual appliance.

According to a new report released this week by mobile security firm NQ Mobile, nearly 95 percent of all mobile malware discovered throughout 2012 targeted the Google’s Android operating system.Overall, NQ Mobile said that it also saw number of mobile malware threats jump 163% to more than 65,000 in 2012.

A C-level executive might seem like the perfect target for an attacker; after all, there is an old adage that goes, kill the head and the body will die. In the cat and mouse game of cybersecurity however, that axiom may not apply as much as some would think.

Advanced Threat Protection & Visibility Series – Part 3: Hacktivists

Schnucks Markets, a 100-store grocery chain across the Midwest, said on Monday that roughly 2.4 million payment cards used at 79 of its 100 stores may have been compromised as a result of a previously disclosed cyber attack.

The Federal Aviation Administration has said that a researcher’s claims that he could hack an aircraft in-flight using only an Android application and a desktop computer are not possible. The FAA’s dismissal comes after Hugo Teso, a German information technology consultant, presented his findings during the Hack in the Box conference earlier this month.

A researcher known for unlocking Motorola handsets, has leveraged a vulnerability in the TrustZone kernel to bypass the bootloader restrictions on several devices sold by Verizon.

Peiter Zatko, better known to the InfoSec world as "Mudge", earning his reputation as a member of L0pht and the Cult of the Dead Cow, announced last Friday that he is leaving DARPA in order to take a position at Google.

Last week, reports surfaced of brute force attacks targeting a large number of WordPress blogs scattered across the Internet. The attacks are still ongoing, with attackers launching brute force attacks against WordPress administrative logins using the username "admin" and trying combinations of thousands of passwords to gain unauthorized access.

Does security awareness training actually help? When it comes to phishing and spear-phishing attacks, many executives appear to think it does make a difference.