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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2011 Internet Crime Report on Thursday, revealing some of the top scams and cybercrime trends for the year.All totaled, the IC3 said it received and processed 314,246 complaints in 2011, averaging out to 26,000 complaints per month. These numbers represent a 3.4 percent increase over the number of complaints received in 2010. The reported dollar loss was $485.3 million.

TrustSphere, a company that provides reputation and messaging intelligence solutions, has released an email security product that leverages a social graph of trusted senders to block spam and reduce the number of messages erroneously sent to junk mail folders, while at the same time helping to defend against targeted attacks.

Web Application Firewalls Aren't the Enemy of the Software Development Lifecycle. Putting a WAF Place Can Help Expedite the SDLC.

After suffering a massive amount of embarrassment over the leak of classified and sensitive diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks - allegedly at the hands of an insider - the Army wants to use keylogging software with additional abilities, to prevent another Cablegate scale data breach.Maj. Gen. Steven Smith, chief of the Army Cyber Directorate, told the Army Times, that they would soon be shopping for software that would be pre-programmed to detect abnormal behavior, as well as examine web searches, downloads,...

They call it OpDefiance (or Operation Defiance), and on Wednesday Anonymous pushed forward in their continual acts of defiance by targeting the website of Russia’s on-again-off-again president, Vladimr Putin.

The world of social media, with its wealth of information and volume of potential victims, has remained a popular stomping ground for cyber criminals. While examining the ten most prevalent threat detections for April, GFI Software discovered that Twitter and Facebook were no longer the main sources of material for enterprising scammers.

International Travelers Warned of Threats via Hotel Connections - “The Malware Hotel—You can check in, but you can't check out!”

Apple Auto-Disables Outdated Versions of Flash Player, Pushes Several Security Fixes in Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari UpdateFollowing a recent update to its iOS software that addressed several security issues with Apple’s mobile devices, the Cupertino tech titan pushed another significant software update today, this time for its flagship Mac OS X operating system and Safari Web browser.

Dell today announced that it has completed its acquisition of IT security vendor SonicWALL, adding several components to the company’s security software and services portfolio.In a deal that was announced on March 13 of this year, while the terms were not publicly disclosed, Dell reportedly paid $1.2 billion to acquired SonicWALL.

Adscend Media LLC, a marketing firm connected to several Clickjacking schemes (also known as Likejacking), has agreed to pay attorney fees and stop spamming Facebook. The agreement was announced on Monday by the Washington State Attorney General’s office.Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna sued Adscend earlier this year, after a rash of scams on Facebook led to users being tricked into sharing personal information and signing up for subscription services.

David DeWalt Joins Mandiant as Chairman of the Board of Directors Mandiant, a firm focused on security threat detection and response solutions, has announced that former McAfee President and CEO, David DeWalt, has been named as chairman of Mandiant’s board of directors.

MySpace Settles With FTC After Failing to Live up to Privacy ExpectationsOn Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that MySpace has agreed to settle charges that the social networking portal misrepresented its privacy claims to users.

Online Address Book Service Plaxo Switching to oAuth After Being used to Access Google AccountsPlaxo, a popular online address book service, has disabled its API and suspended some services after attackers used them as a proxy to target an unknown number of Google accounts.

iOS 5.1.1 Update Addresses Security Issues on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion today announced that the U.S Department of Defense has given department-wide approval for the use of BlackBerry 7 smartphones on its networks. The struggling smartphone maker said that by working with U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) sponsors and partners, BlackBerry 7 smartphones have undergone successful testing through Army labs leading to a subsequent listing on DISA's Unified Communications Approved Product List (UCAPL).

BeyondTrust, a Carlsbad, California-based provider of identity management solutions, today announced that is has acquired vulnerability management solution provider, eEye Digital Security.

Fixing DNSSEC Errors - What Can You Do When DNSSEC Goes Bad?Despite the fact that the Internet is an increasingly critical component of the world’s communications infrastructure, its “phone book” -- the Domain Name System (DNS) -- is often considered fundamentally insecure.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SYMANTEC VISION 2012 - Symantec wants to dip its hands deeper into mobile security with a strategy stretching from anti-malware to device management to controlling security for the applications themselves.

Security researchers are warning Microsoft customers to keep their eyes on the critical bulletins in this month’s Patch Tuesday update.

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