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Akamai Technologies has released its State of the Internet report for the second quarter of 2012, based on data collected from its massive global network. While Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 188 unique countries, the highest level of observed attacks originated in the Asia/Pacific region, over the quarter, the report found.

Last week, Mozilla removed the latest version of their Firefox Web browser just a day after it was released. The reason? A security vulnerability was discovered after the browser had shipped.

WikiLeaks appears to be losing support within the Anonymous collective. In recent days, members have voiced displeasure with WikiLeaks' decision to put data behind a paywall. The move triggered criticism on Twitter and elsewhere from Anonymous members.

WASHINGTON - The United States expressed disappointment Tuesday after Britain decided not to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is wanted on suspicion of accessing secret NASA and Pentagon systems.

European Union data regulators have given Google four months to modify its privacy policy or face possible fines and enforcement actions.

AT&T will start sending out anti-piracy warnings to suspected subscribers and flag accounts for repeated copyright infringements next month, according to alleged internal training documents obtained by TorrentFreak.

Burlington, Wash. officials admitted that cyber-criminals had stolen more than $400,000 from the city's bank account and also obtained individual financial data belonging to employees and some residents.

Kaspersky Lab Confirms Rumors That It Has a Secure SCADA Operating System In Development

A new survey from AlgoSec shows complexity is the enemy of network security.

LONDON - Gary McKinnon, a Briton with Asperger's Syndrome, became an icon for legal campaigners after battling for a decade against his extradition to the United States for hacking into military computers.

New Solutions From McAfee Help Address Security Challenges for Data Centers in the Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments McAfee on Monday launched a series of Data Center Security Suites designed to help secure servers and databases housed in data centers.

LONDON - British hacker Gary McKinnon, an Asperger's sufferer who broke into US military computers, will not be extradited to the United States following a ten-year legal fight, Britain said Tuesday. "Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes, but there is also no doubt that he is seriously ill," interior minister Theresa May told parliament.

Last week, Microsoft released the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), which provided some interesting empirical insight into malware and how it is distributed on the Internet.

Oracle is planning a massive security update for Tuesday with fixes for more than 100 vulnerabilities impacting the company's products.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say a tool first thought to be a module of the Flame malware is actually an independent piece of malware in its own right.

Web security firm, Websense, recently examined a small spam campaign that included variants of the Zeus Trojan that had little to no coverage by a majority of anti-virus vendors. Their point was to demonstrate that sometimes even small campaigns could cause a large amount of problems for an organization.

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel was facing an increasing number of cyberattacks, just days after Washington issued a veiled warning to Iran over digital attacks on its interests."There have been increasing efforts to carry out cyberattacks on Israel's computer infrastructure," Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting, without giving details.

Early Saturday, visitors accesing Oracle’s main web site, www.oracle.com, are being greeted with a friendly hello. In fact, that’s all that the site is currently displaying at the time. As of 7:20AM ET on Saturday morning, Oracle.Com vistors are seeing the famous programming words, “Hello World” in plain black text on the company’s site.

WASHINGTON - The United States believes Iran was behind a major cyberattack on Saudi Arabia's state oil company and a Qatari gas firm, a former US official who has worked on cybersecurity issues said Friday.

During her keynote at RSA Europe earlier this week, Adrienne Hall, Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing General Manager, announced the release of a tool that will help companies with up to 500 employees understand the impact of cloud migration.