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Accenture Awarded TSA Contract for Identity Management and Credentialing System That Will Manage Millions of Transportation Workers

ANKARA - A group of Internet hackers appeared before an Ankara court on Monday on charges of terrorism, the first time alleged cyber criminals have been put on trial in Turkey, local media reported. The 10 members of the "Redhack" group are accused of belonging to an armed terrorist organisation, illegally obtaining confidential documents and personal information, as well as cracking into private systems without authorization.

Nationwide may not be on your side, at least when it comes to press containment and incident response. According to a letter from the insurance company recently delivered to customers, the firm is cleaning up after a nasty data breach. However, they’re not disclosing the full scale and scope of the breach itself in order to prevent panic, a Nationwide Mutual spokesperson has stated.

Malware Modifies, Deletes Business SQL DatabasesSymantec researchers said they have discovered new malware that targets corporate databases, but doesn’t actually have data-stealing capabilities. Instead, Symantec said, the malware modifies and deletes records in corporate SQL databases.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe’s cyber security agency, has released a new report focused on honeypots, and how these digital traps can most effectively be used by CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams) to detect cyber-attacks and sniff out malicious activity.

We all stumble across the occasional Bluebird - an upgrade to first-class on a trans-country flight, a parking spot just in front of the mall entrance, or a scratch-off lottery ticket that helped pay off this month’s mortgage payment - just some random event that makes the day a bit better.

The latest Java vulnerability has been integrated into both Black Hole and Gong Da exploit kits, making it easier for cyber-criminals to launch attacks exploiting the flaw, a security researcher said.

LONDON - A British student went on trial in London on Thursday accused of a series of cyber-attacks by the hacking group Anonymous that cost the US online payments giant PayPal millions of dollars. Christopher Weatherhead, 22, is accused of participating in attacks by Anonymous on PayPal, MasterCard and other companies that refused to process payments to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli cabinet minister's Twitter account was hacked Wednesday by a pro-Palestinian outfit which posted messages in his name calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "murdering psychopath". The string of tweets on the page belonging to vice prime minister Silvan Shalom included messages reading: "FREE PALESTINE! END THE OCCUPATION! STOP THE MURDER OF PALESTINIANS NOW!"

BEIJING - Chinese police have detained two people accused of inciting unrest in online postings, state media and a rights group said Wednesday in a sign of official concern over potential social instability. Police in south China's Guangdong province detained a car owner for posting messages online trying to organize a bumper sticker campaign against rising vehicle licensing fees, the Global Times reported.

WASHINGTON - A US government agency has decided to buy iPhones for its employees, dumping its BlackBerry smartphones, citing their unreliability. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a public notice last week it would be contracting with Verizon Wireless for the iPhone 5, saying it is the "only device" that meets the agency's needs. The iPhones will have an additional benefit of compatibility with Apple iPad tablets used by the agency.

Kaspersky Lab's CEO is on a mission to save the world from cyber-war. And along the way, if he can stop those cyber-criminals, that's a bonus.

State-sanctioned attackers broke into French government computers and illegally obtained top-secret information, according to an exclusive report in the French paper L'Express. The United States was behind the incident, the paper claimed.

A booby-trapped email message led to the massive data breach of South Carolina's tax system over the summer, according to the latest timeline of events.

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Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox Web browser, which addresses a massive batch of 2,365 bugs. In addition to general usability issues, the latest release addresses 16 security issues.

Andrew Auernheimer, of Goatse Security fame, was found guilty on Tuesday of one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers and one count of identity theft. His case started back in 2010, when he and Daniel Spitler exposed a logic flaw in a web application used by AT&T iPad customers.

A security researcher has developed a proof-of-concept malware capable of remotely accessing smart card readers on Windows machines.

In a muffled and convoluted audio recording, the ex-councilman of the village of Carmelita, Anthony Rhaburn, allegedly tries to convince an employee working for John McAfee to help the government of Belize kill him. The audio recording (embedded at the bottom of this article) is part of a blog post made by McAfee, as the saga of his collapsing world unfolds.

Symantec researchers have discovered a piece of malware that leverages Google Docs to communicate with its command-and-control (C&C) server. The malware is a version of the Makadocs Trojan, which opens a backdoor on the compromised computer and tries to steal information. The latest version of the malware uses Google Docs are a proxy server to reach its C&C.