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At its North America Community Meeting on Thursday, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the standards body that oversees the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), released best practices for mobile payment acceptance security.

Microsoft scored another legal victory in its legal assault against botnets this week after a court gave the company the OK to seize control of a domain linked to malicious activity.

Anonymous on Thursday posted credit card numbers in retaliation for what it claimed was an FBI raid arresting one of its members. The group said Barrett Brown was arrested in an FBI raid while participating in an online chat Wednesday. Contacted by AFP, the FBI declined to comment. But a video posted by the group, a loosely knit collective with no clearly defined leadership structure, showed the chat interrupted by what appeared to be a raid.

Cybersecurity services firm KEYW Corporation (NASDAQ: KEYW) announced after the bell on Thursday that it would acquire Sensage, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and event data warehousing solutions, in a cash and stock deal valued at up to $34.5 million.

A new version of the Black Hole exploit kit has been released with updated features designed to fight off efforts by security researchers to combat it.

Global Security Infrastructure Market To Grow 8.4 Percent
 In 2012According to data released by Gartner, worldwide spending on security is expected to rise to $60 billion in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in 2011.

Government budgets are not infinite, but with some work, they can be made a bit more elastic. Stretching a budget however means finding efficiencies that will allow agencies to cut costs, and that, means understanding what your organization needs to protect and prioritizing, according to attendees at the (ISC)2 Security Congress in Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON - The leaders of a congressional probe into two Chinese telecom giants expressed fresh concerns Thursday about the firm's links to the Beijing government, as the companies defended their integrity.

Threat prevention provider FireEye, and Splunk, the recently gone public provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from multiple sources, today announced the availability of Splunk for FireEye, an application that makes information on inbound and outbound events from

An Opportunity for Datacenters with a Real Security Service Centric Approach

McAfee today announced that Mike Fey has been appointed as Worldwide Chief Technology Officer.

TOKYO - (AFP) - Asian mobile carriers look set to cash in on the iPhone 5 and its superfast speeds, but the model is not the game-changer that Apple needs if it is to remain top of the heap, analysts said Thursday. The phone's use of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless technology will allow carriers to increase their charges and boost profits as existing users download more content and smartphone non-converts are tempted to take the plunge.

Perimeter E-Security, a provider of cloud and messaging security services, today launched a Mac OS X version of their SaaS Web Security solution. The solution allows organizations to enforce acceptable use policies, reduce security risks and curb abuse of network bandwidth for users of Mac OS X systems, giving employees the same levels of protection whether they are operating a Mac or PC.

With the Obama administration reportedly circulating a draft of an executive order on cyber-security, former U.S. Secretary Robert Gates said in a keynote that nation-states are far from the only players on the cyber-battlefield.

Networking giant Cisco Systems today introduced a set of security solutions designed to protect data centers that are shifting to virtualized environments.

The Disttrack/Shamoon malware, while destructive, appears to be the work of amateurs and not elite and sophisticated developers, according to the latest analysis.

What differentiates security and privacy? What unites them? Are they mutually exclusive or highly compatible? Does your organization’s policy on privacy trump its security policy? Are there policies in place for one or the other or both? Have you revisited them lately? If not -- as the saying goes -- there is no time like the present.

Microsoft has reversed its earlier stance and promised an update to Flash for Windows 8 users "shortly."

Messaging security firm Cloudmark today announced Cloudmark Mobile Platform 3.0, the latest edition of its messaging security solution for mobile network operators.Cloudmark Mobile Platform 3.0 provides real-time visibility and control of mobile messaging threats originating from internal or external networks and delivers the policy controls and scalability to help operators stop threats before they impact mobile networks and subscribers, the company said.

Wave Systems' new endpoint security product relies on a chip on the computer's motherboard to detect malware infections.