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Websense announced a number of enhancements today to the latest version of its TRITON Web, email and data security product to help customers fight off attackers.Websense's Advanced Classification Engine (ACE) has been armed with 10 new defenses in TRITON 7.7, including: detecting criminal encrypted uploads, optical character recognition of text within images for data-in-motion and geo-location awareness.

In the security and privacy world, 2012 is turning out to be the year for Internet security bills. From CISPA to CSA to SECURE IT, you name it and there’s been a bill introduced in Congress for “securing” the Internet.

Attackers are increasingly shifting their focus on smaller businesses when crafting targeted attacks, according to Symantec's monthly threat report. The June 2012 Symantec Intelligence Report found that 36 percent of all targeted attacks that were detected over the last six months were directed at businesses with 250 or fewer employees. In comparison, a mere 18 percent of targeted attacks went after small businesses in December 2011.

Seculert, a Petach-Tikva, Israel-based malware threat detection company, today announced that it has closed a $5.35 million round of venture funding that will be used to further expand its sales and product development teams and establish a U.S. presence.The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with existing investor YL Ventures also participating in the round.

Researchers at Trusteer have discovered a type of attack that is targeting Android users via their desktops, with the aim of controlling both endpoint devices. So far the malware itself is limited to Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Portugal.Trusteer's discovery offers some additional insight into the development of SpyEye and Tatanga, the families of malware making headlines recently. In May, Trusteer observed Tatanga mixing traditional social engineering with browser hijacking in an attempt to fool the victim into legitimately approving...

On July 4, researchers from mobile protection firm TrustGo detected a new piece of malware targeting Android. Unlike other Android attacks however, this one gained a large install-base rather quickly – infecting 100,000 devices in less than a week.

Symantec, who bought their way to the top of the SSL market with the purchase of VeriSign in a $1.28 billion deal announced in May 2010, has said they will adopt the Certification Authority Browser (CA/B) Forum Baseline Requirements, which were

General Alexander Urges Congress That Defensive Cybersecurity Actions Must Be Taken Before it Is Too Late

Network security firm Cyberoam has released an update for all of its unified threat management (UTM) devices in response to the leak of the default private key used by all of the company's UTM devices. The company pushed the fix out over-the-air after an anonymous poster leaked the key online. The update forces devices to use unique certificate authority (CA) SSL certificates when intercepting SSL traffic on corporate networks.

This is the third in a series of articles on the new “3x3” security model for critical infrastructure cyber security. The first defined the model itself, so if you haven’t read it yet, you may want to read it here before continuing.

Law enforcement demanded access to text messages, caller locations, and other data 1.3 million times in 2011. These figures come from a series of reports issued by the nation’s cellphone carriers, as requested by Congress, and marks the first time such data has been made available.According to the New York Times, the reports document “an explosion in cellphone surveillance in the last five years, with the companies turning over records thousands of times a day in response to police emergencies,...

The developer for DarkComet, a Remote Access Tool (Trojan), has pulled the application and ended development. The tool’s less than stellar reputation, as well as legal concerns, were listed as two of the main reasons for the project’s abrupt conclusion.Jean-Pierre Lesueur, the one responsible for bringing DarkComet to the masses, said that he toiled away at DarkComet for years and offered it freely in exchange for one thing - that those using it would do so responsibly. However, clearly that...

AlienVault, the San Mateo, California-based company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, and the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, today announced that it has closed a $22.4 million Series C funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Sigma—two prominent venture firms.

Yesterday, SecurityWeek reported on a blog post by Microsoft security researcher Terry Zink, who said that a spammer had control of Android devices. As it turns out, while malware on the Android platform is a reality, spammers may not have gained total control.  “All of these message are sent from Android devices,” Zink wrote initially. He was commenting on an unusually high number of junk emails that had Yahoo Mail headers, and an Android-based signature.

After the discovery of systems infected with an unknown family of malware at India’s Eastern Naval Command, the country has quickly pinned the blame on China. India’s accusal is based on the fact that data harvested from the infected systems was copied to a server with a IP address in China.

Sun Tzu once said, “if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.”

In a letter sent to partners, Jay Bavisi, President and CEO of the EC-Council, said that the company responsible for making Certified Ethical Hackers (C|EH) had launched an investigation after one of their own embezzled company funds.

A Google Android botnet has been spotted spamming messages pushing counterfeit medication. According to Sophos, the activity represents the latest way to monetize Android botnets. Traditionally, mobile malware has made money by intercepting SMS messages used as part of two-factor authentication mechanisms for online banks and charging fees for premium-rate SMS messages. This botnet however is sending messages that push Viagra and Cialis.

Apple’s closed model, while criticized by many, has kept iPhone and iPad users relatively safe from malware and other potentially malicious apps, especially when compared to Android users.While some iOS apps have been called into question before over privacy concerns and aggressive advertising tactics, Kaspersky Lab researchers are saying they have discovered an iOS app that they are outright calling malware.

A team of security researchers have demonstrated how a security flaw in Android 4.0.4 can be exploited by a rootkit.