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Hackers’ Investment in Evasion Techniques Proves That They See Web Applications as a Valuable Attack Surface

The number of malicious websites identified by Symantec has inched upward in the past month to 2,189 websites per day, according to the company's latest intelligence report.

After a journalist for Wired had his digital life wiped away, and his coverage on the topic exposed how their customer service and user experience policies can be exploited for malicious gain, Apple and Amazon have adopted new policies for account access.

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BotoPedia, a site similar to Wikipedia, but focusing on bots (both good and bad), made its debut today. It’s the brainchild of Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, and they’re hoping it will serve as a useful resource for organizations who need help developing Web-based policies.

Trend Micro Adds Big Data Capabilities to its “Smart Protection Network” for Enhanced Cloud, Mobile and Targeted Attack ProtectionTrend Micro has expanded its cloud-based security infrastructure with big data analytics to collect actionable intelligence about the latest threats.

One of the central figures believed to have been behind the Mariposa botnet is on trial in Slovenia. The suspected mastermind of the botnet, Matjaž Škorjanc, 26, is believed by the authorities to be the hacker known as "Iserdo." Authorities arrested him in Slovenia arrested in 2010. At its height, Mariposa was composed of more than 8 million zombie computers infected with the Butterfly bot (Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly). 

Security researchers have identified new Zeus malware samples targeting Android and BlackBerry devices.

As organizations shift towards the cloud to store and transfer sensitive and confidential information, there are some disagreements over who was in charge of protecting the data, according to a recent report.

According to separate reports from data security firm Imperva, and FireHost, a cloud hosting company, SQL Injection (SQLi) attacks were the number one attack vector in the first half of 2012.

Enigma Module Offers Full Disk Encryption for USB Storage DrivesEnova Technology, a Taiwan-based provider of encryption solutions, on Monday launched a USB encryption solution designed to provide consumers and enterprises with real-time full disk encryption for just about any USB mass storage class drive.

In the physical world, some metropolitan areas manage growth by creating boundaries. In the online world, growth is also controlled with boundaries. And right now, we’re in the middle of setting the course for how the real estate of the Internet will be labeled and accessed for years to come with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) new gTLD Program.

McAfee announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded a multi-year Enterprise Level Agreement contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could be valued up to $12 million. Under the contract, McAfee says it plans to provide the DHS with a number of of enterprise wide network and system security products, services and support, including expanding the DHS’s continuous monitoring and security capabilities.

WELLINGTON - (AFP) - Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom on Tuesday accused New Zealand police of kicking and punching him when they raided his Auckland mansion earlier this year to arrest him for alleged copyright piracy.Dotcom told the Auckland High Court he tried to surrender peacefully to police during the raid in January, when about 70 armed police cooperating with a major US online piracy probe raided the mansion.

After Senate Republicans smacked down the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 last week, the Obama administration is said to be weighing its options, and could bypass Congress altogether, using executive orders to mandate parts of the failed bill.

SEOUL- (AFP) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it had launched a super-size version of its Galaxy Note smartphone, the latest salvo in its battle with Apple for the multi-billion-dollar handheld market.The Galaxy Note 10.1, which went on sale on Monday in Germany and the United Arab Emirates, is almost twice as wide as its predecessor and nearly the size of a tablet.

Officials in Iran plan to move key ministries and state bodies off the public Internet to protect them from cyber-attacks, according to a report.

Ever wonder how some Twitter accounts seemingly became so popular overnight? According to Barracuda Networks, it is not always due to the person's celebrity or charisma, but instead is tied to a thriving black market for phony social networking accounts.

Apple’s tech support department is taking some heat after their actions led to a journalist losing control of all of the data associated with his iCloud account, which in turn led to the compromise of Gizmodo’s Twitter account over the weekend.