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San Francisco-based mobile and smart device security firm Mocana, today announced release of the latest version of its Mobile App Protection (MAP) solution which lets customers wrap fine-grained app-level DLP, VPN, and access & usage controls around individual mobile applications.

ZURICH - A tax-dodging spat involving the Swiss bank UBS and Germany took a fresh twist after a Swiss daily reported on Tuesday that German authorities were using simple photos taken by a UBS worker of their computer screen. "The data was photographed from a (computer) screen and pieced together bit by bit," lawyer Jorg Schauf, representing a UBS client, told the Tages Anzeiger.

Majority of Attacks in 2012 Were Redirects from Legitimate Sites, 27 Percent of All Cybercrime Linked to ‘Blackhole’ Exploit KitEven though organizations are increasingly focusing on mobile devices and security, cyber-criminals still focused on traditional malware and Web-based attacks in 2012, Sophos found in its latest threat report.

PhoneFactor, the provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) technology that was recently acquired by Microsoft, today launched an authentication app that runs on the Windows Phone mobile operating system.

Good Technology launched its identity and access management platform with a two-factor authentication product to secure corporate email on the iPhone, the company said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON  - American anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, wanted for questioning over the murder of his neighbor last month in Belize, claimed Tuesday to have made it out of the country to Guatemala.

According to a report from Reuters, sensitive information on counter-terrorism shared by several foreign governments was potentially compromised by a massive data theft at a Swiss intelligence agency. The data heist, according to what European national security sources told Reuters, was by an unnamed IT technician for the NDB, a Swiss intelligence agency.

In its 100th case against violations to the national Do Not Call (DNC) Registry, the FTC has shut the doors on a robocall operation that was scamming people by using the FTC’s name.

For many years, I’ve been one of the people who work to make the Internet as safe and secure as possible — a task I’ve sometimes compared to being a sheriff who helps to bring law and order to the Wild West. And although the real Wild West has been civilized for more than a century, the virtual version — the Internet — is still decidedly wild.

3M, the company that makes those nifty privacy filters for computer screens and mobile devices, has recently released a quick study that reminds us all that the screen watchers are out there, and they can see the data you’re willingly (albeit unintentionally) sharing with the world. How much of that data would be considered sensitive?

Productivity and IT security are like a couple in a troubled marriage. When things are good, they mesh nicely; when they aren't, the sparks can fly.

New malware targeting Mac users has been discovered on a website associated with the Dalai Lama."Acting on a tip, a member of our Threat Research team (Brod) has discovered a Dalai Lama related website is compromised and is pushing new Mac malware, called Dockster, using a Java-based exploit," blogged Sean Sullivan, security advisor for F-Secure.

SAN FRANCISCO - A software "worm" evidently unleashed by hackers burrowed through Tumblr on Monday, defacing pages at the popular blogging platform with a vitriolic, expletive-laden message. A hacker group going by the acronym "GNAA" claimed responsibility for the diatribe, which dismissed most of what bloggers shared online as worthless.

DUBAI - Internet freedom will not be curbed or controlled, the head of the UN telecommunications body, Hamadoun Toure, said as a meeting to review the 24-year-old telecom regulations kicked off Monday. Such claims are "completely (unfounded)," Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, told AFP.

Even as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are becoming larger and more complex, the possibility of an attack big enough to take down the entire Internet remains unlikely, security experts say.

SYDNEY - Australian police said Thursday they had uncovered the country's biggest ever credit card data theft and smashed a Romanian syndicate allegedly behind the scam. An international investigation saw seven people charged in Romania with stealing the details of about 30,000 credit cards and using the information to buy goods around the world worth some Aus$30 million (US$31 million).

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Newly Disclosed MySQL Vulnerabilities Puts Databases at Risk For The HolidaysOver the weekend, a security researcher posted several vulnerabilities to the Full Disclosure mailing list, seven of them related to MySQL, the most popular open source database in the world. Given that MySQL is mission critical in many environments, the vulnerabilities are worth examining.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has said that it is investigating a potential data leak related to its Epsilon rocket after Malware was discovered on its network.

If you’re an administrator or security team member for your organization’s network, you’ve likely heard about the Crisis malware at some point in your risk management research. On Friday, Symantec published a new white paper on the malware, with a rounded overview into its history and details of its capabilities.