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House lawmakers are expected to markup the proposed cybersecurity legislation in a private closed-door session today in preparation for a floor vote next week.

Patent Lawsuit Against Apple Forces Change in iOS VPN On Demand Functionality - Enterprises and Vendors Scramble

A big city newspaper is impersonal. You don’t know the people in it, and they don’t know you. But a small town newspaper is deeply personal. There you see the opinions of people you actually know. You see pictures of officials you elected and met for coffee in their home when they were running for office. But the most intimate exposé unfolds in the police log. There you see what happens when bucolic suburban life goes bad.

SEOUL - An official investigation into a major cyber attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters last month has determined North Korea's military intelligence agency was responsible, officials said Wednesday.

Internet security firm Check Point Software Technologies launched a new low-cost series of security appliances designed to provide enterprise-class security in a small desktop form factor ideal for branch and remote offices.

Patch Tuesday this month comes with nine security bulletins and one security-related reminder – Windows XP is a year away from its end-of-life.

One of the more interesting cyber security phenomenons I’ve witnessed recently is not only the willingness of CEOs to admit that their company has suffered a breach, but the enthusiasm in which they have shown in making the admission.

Enterprise software firm NetIQ announced updates its Change Guardian product on Tuesday, which now has the ability to detect and respond to potential threats in real time through intelligent alerting of unauthorized access and changes to critical files, systems, and applications, the company said.

SafeNet has released the latest version of its secure app development technology to help organizations protect their software from counterfeiting and misuse.

Mocana, a San Francisco-based company that focuses on mobile and smart device security solutions, unveiled new capabilities and security features to its security solution for protecting mobile apps from data leaks and other threats.

Identity and information security solutions firm Entrust, on Tuesday announced updates to its Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential offering.

ForgeRock, a San Francisco, California-based open source identity and access management (IAM) solutions provider, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $15 million through a Series B round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $22 million.

Scaling a company or even just a critical application within a company can be as scary as it is exciting. For starters, often you really don’t know when the hockey stick type growth will occur. Even the largest companies can’t always predict when demand will take off. Take a healthcare SaaS provider, for example.

WASHINGTON - Backers of a cybersecurity bill which stalled in Congress last year offered changes Monday in an effort to ease concerns of privacy and civil liberties activists.

WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-6 that had long been in the public domain, billing it as a victory for transparency.

Security researchers have recently uncovered a number of vulnerabilities in popular wireless routers.

Network security firm Sourcefire on Monday announced that it has appointed John Becker as its new Chief Executive Officer, taking over for Martin Roesch who has served as interim Chief Executive Officer since June 2012 after John Burris took a medical leave of absence to undergo a series of treatments for colon cancer.

Renault Partners with AVG Technologies to Secure its New Automotive App Store

BadB, a man with deep ties to the carding community, notorious for his connections to CarderPlanet before authorities shut it down in 2004, was sentenced to 88 months in prison last week for trafficking in stolen credit cards.

A new report from McAfee outlines the growing risks in the sales and commerce industry, due in part to the mix of legacy and newer Point of Sale (POS) systems, in addition to secondary market hardware. Overall, McAfee’s point is that businesses need to focus on more than just PCI DSS compliance.