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PRAGUE - Hackers attacked several top Czech news websites on Monday, overloading them with hundreds of thousands of requests per second to make them inaccessible, publishers said. "News servers have been facing a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack since 8:30 am (0730 GMT)," iDNES.cz, the website of the top-selling Czech broadsheet DNES, said on its Facebook profile.

Despite the changing threat landscape and all the security challenges we face today, there are many reasons for the security industry to be optimistic, a Microsoft executive said at the RSA Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2013 - A two-person panel tackled a provocative question head-on at the RSA Conference on Thursday: Is software security a waste of time for most companies?

Security researchers have uncovered a highly-customized piece of malware that has been leveraging a recently patched exploit in Adobe Reader.

BEIJING - Hackers mainly based in the United States attacked two Chinese military websites including the Defense Ministry page an average of 144,000 times a month last year, the ministry said on Thursday.

The soon-to-be released data breach report from Verizon will provide a more extensive picture of cyber-crime worldwide than previous reports, its principal author said in a press briefing at the RSA Conference Tuesday evening.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2013 - The security industry needs to stop spending time and energy trying to identify the perpetrators behind the attacks and start focusing on using big data analytics to beef up defenses, RSA Security's executive chairman said in the opening keynote for the RSA Conference.

In some companies, the CISO has taken on a Rodney Dangerfield like character in that: It gets no respect. And it probably won’t until both the corner office and the boardroom view security as a business risk issue rather than a technology issue. Earning that respect and becoming a change agent within the company, however, may first require the CISO to engage in some change management of his or her own.

Adobe Systems plugged multiple security holes in Flash Player that today have come under attack in the wild, marking the third security update issued for the product this month.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2013 - Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks have teamed up to provide customers with a “holistic approach to thwart advanced attackers,” the companies said Monday.

Mandiant, the security and threat management firm recently in the headlines for its bold APT1 report exposing Chinese espionage operations, today announced the launch of a new threat intelligence offering.

PARIS - Online activists backing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed responsibility on Tuesday for hacking an AFP Twitter account. The account, @AFPphoto, was hacked on Tuesday at around 1645 GMT. Images posted until the account was suspended more than an hour later did not come from the agency, AFP's management said in a statement.

Skyhigh Networks, a Cupertino, California-based startup offering cloud visibility and control solutions, on Monday emerged from stealth mode and officially launched its new solution designed to help enterprises know which cloud services their employees use, and the associated risks those services may pose.

FireEye on Monday announced a next-generation threat protection platform to detect new and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks along with a slew of partnerships at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Last week Mandiant released a powerful report that exposed what certainly appears to be a state-sponsored hacking initiative from China, dubbed by Mandiant as APT1.

Stuxnet Version 0.5 Targeted Crucial Valves that Feed Uranium Hexafluoride Gas Into Centrifuges

SAN FRANCISCO –  Cloud-based security and risk management solutions provider Qualys, on Monday, announced new vulnerability management capabilities for users of certain Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings.

New Appliance from Sourcefire Provides Continuous Analysis and Retrospective Security to Address Malware Across the Enterprise

Trend Micro has enhanced its ability to identify and block command and control (C&C) communications used by advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting enterprises.