SecurityWeek

Shen Danyang, a spokesman of China’s Ministry of Commerce, says that the measures within the Obama administration’s recently signed stopgap measure go too far and send the wrong signal. When signed into law, the stopgap prevents a handful of U.S. agencies from purchasing IT equipment manufactured in China due to national security concerns.

Inline with New Law, Sprint and Softbank Say They Would Not Purchase Equipment from Huawei, and that Existing Equipment would be Phased Out.

Clever spammers have come up with a way to bypass email filters in order to send Pharma-themed junk messages. The process is done in stages, using a legitimate URL shortener, Google’s translation services, and compromised domains.

The victims of the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) data breach are going to get additional credit monitoring thanks to $1 million in approved funds from the state’s lawmakers.

The U.S. Air Force, specifically the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, is seeking to gain a better understanding on the state of industry research when it comes to protecting ground and space-based assets, with bonus points to clever researcher that covers cybersecurity.

A Wisconsin man has been charged for his role in a series of DDoS attacks against Koch Industries during Anonymous’ OpWisconsin in 2011. Anonymous’ beef with the Koch brothers started during Wisconsin’s union struggles, championed by Gov. Scott Walker.

BEIJING - Over a quarter of the members of a US business lobby in China have experienced data theft, the group said on Friday, after the two powers engaged in a war of words over state-sponsored hacking attacks.

Researchers at Dell SecureWorks say a multi-function piece of Android malware is spreading through a spam campaign that uses this year's tax season as part of a lure. 

Amazon's latest security offering provides Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers with a separate appliance to securely store encryption keys, issue digital certificates, and manage cryptographic keys used for data encryption.

The network access control market is forecast to exceed $1 billion in less than four years.The market for network access control products and services is expected to grow 22 percent to reach $1.061 billion by 2017, the Ogren Group said in its latest vendor market forecast and market analysis report. The market for NAC products and services was $392 million in 2012, according to the group.

Authorities in Europe arrested 44 members of a global credit card fraud network in a joint operation that took down a criminal gang that targeted victims in 16 countries.

Security has its foundation in trust, but trust and control over the source of trust go hand in hand. What happens when a lack of control over the technologies on which trust is built means you can no longer trust them?

BEIJING - Beijing branded a new US spending bill barring government purchases of Chinese-made technology "biased" on Thursday, after the two powers clashed over accusations of cyber-hacking.

CAIRO - The Egyptian military has arrested three scuba divers accused of cutting an undersea Internet cable off the coast of the northern city of Alexandria, it said on Thursday. The three had been spotted on board a small boat and attempted to flee ashore, but the navy gave chase and eventually caught up and arrested them, the military said on its Facebook page.

Cloud hosting and storage is increasingly popular, but many organizations are inadvertently exposing sensitive data because of a simple configuration misstep.

'Bazooka' Attacks Slowing Internet: Security ExpertsWASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 (AFP) - The Internet may have been slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen, which targeted a European group that patrols the Web for spam, security experts said Wednesday.

According a new report from Kaazing, real-time applications are both a curse and a blessing for organizations the world over. Kaazing, the company behind the HTML5 Web Socket standard, says that respondents to a recent study listed security as their top benefit and as their main concern, as they move forward with development plans within their respective organizations.

The Discovery of Botnets on our Enterprise Networks Can be an Indicator of an Advanced Targeted Attack.

A Boston-based merchant warned customers this week that a “sophisticated malware attack” had compromised some customers' credit and debit card information. An investigation was underway and more details are expected later this week.