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VMware recently appeared to confirm they are working with public cloud providers to build vCloud-based offerings under the name vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service. This is an interesting approach, though they haven’t yet provided all of the details.

A casino in Melbourne, Australia is hoping to recuperate their losses, after a high-stakes card player scammed them out of millions of dollars before being caught. The scam took advantage of the Crown Towers’ camera system, which was compromised during the heist.

MUMBAI - Mumbai police have set up India's first "social media lab" to monitor Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites, sparking concerns about freedom of speech online.

A Russian security researcher accused China-based Huawei during a Black Hat Europe presentation last week of being slow to address security issues, stating that their 3G and 4G mobile broadband devices were vulnerable to attack due to problems with their update channel.

Gamers have an additional safety consideration this morning, thanks in part to the platforms developed by houses such as EA, which expose them to risk by design. Two Malta-based researchers presented findings last week during Black Hat Europe that show a combination of issues that can expose gamers to cyberattack.

SEOUL - Cheon Joon-Sahng may not look like an elite warrior, but the shy, South Korean high school student has been fully trained for a frontline role in any future cyber battle with North Korea.

SAN FRANCISCO - A US judge has ordered the FBI to stop its "pervasive" use of National Security letters to secretly snoop on phone and email records, ruling Friday that the heavily used tactic was unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON - A US journalist with the Reuters news agency has been suspended after being charged with conspiring with the hacktivist group Anonymous to break into and alter an online Los Angeles Times article.

WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will press Beijing on cybersecurity issues when he meets with China's new leadership next week, a senior US administration official said Friday.

An ongoing malicious email campaign is masquerading as an unpaid invoice, a Kaspersky Lab researcher said Thursday.

Two Carnegie Mellon University student-run teams will host the first picoCTF, a computer security competition running April 26 to May 6 that challenges high school students to learn the basics of hacking in the context of a story-driven adventure game, the University said Thursday.

I recently had the pleasure of traveling in the Pacific Northwest to conduct several visits with top network security teams. I enjoy making these types of trips, especially when new patterns of insight emerge.

SEOUL - North Korea on Friday accused the United States and South Korea of carrying out a "persistent and intensive" cyber attack against its official websites in recent days. A number of official North Korean websites, including those of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the daily Rodong Sinmun newspaper, and Air Koryo airline became inaccessible early Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - US federal authorities charged a Reuters social media editor Thursday with conspiring with the hacktivist group Anonymous to break into and alter an online Los Angeles Times article. Matthew Keys, 26, was indicted in California on three counts of felonies related to hacking before his current Reuters post. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Attackers are using a new Adobe Reader exploit to target Tibetan and Uyghur activists to drop an advanced piece of malware, according to researchers from AlienVault and Kaspersky Lab.

Apple on Thursday released Mac OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3 along with a wave of security updates spanning numerous products ranging from the operating system kernel to many components and applications and its Safari Web browser. 

Sophisticated attackers are expanding their reconnaissance methods to gain an advantage in their quest to compromise data. According to a new report from Mandiant entitled 'Attack the Security Gap', attackers are starting to target data related to network infrastructure, processing methodologies and system and administration guides in order to gather information they can use to exploit networks and system more efficiently.

Adrian Stone, Director of Security Response at BlackBerry, chats with Ryan Naraine about his time at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), his work handling incident response on a mobile platform and the challenges of dealing with security of open-source components.

Company: LightCyber  |  Who: Giora Engel, Co-Founder and CEO

A malware infection has led administrators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to take the U.S. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) offline.The NVD site currently bears the following message: "Site/Page Not Available. The NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has experienced an issue with its Web Services and is currently not available. We are working to restore service as quickly as possible. We will provide updates as soon as new information is available."