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HP Awarded Contract to Enhance Assessment of Department of Defense Networks for Vulnerabilities HP today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has selected HP Enterprise Services as the prime contractor for a program that will provide analytics to enable the assessment of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise networks and connected IT systems against DoD standards, as well as any known system vulnerabilities.

The recent move by the FCC and major cell phone carriers to create a database of stolen phones is in response to the danger your smartphone is in from thieves who want to steal and then sell them for profit. What about the hackers who just want the information from your phone – and then hope you continue using it to make financial transactions?

Adding Context Around Data Can Make a Huge Difference in How you Manage and Protect Information.Why is context important? Because without context, information is not really information; it is just data. Data is just “stuff”, while information is what that stuff means.Would you like some plain language context for my point?42.

NEW YORK, NY – Bloomberg Cybersecurity Conference -- Mentioning Pearl Harbor conjures up images of death, destruction and dread, making it a popular metaphor for conveying the devastation that could be caused by a major cyber attack. But there may be a more accurate allegory from World War II – the Japanese invasion of Singapore.

How can you defend against attacks that leverage automation and are outpacing alerting mechanisms and manual-access controls?

Certificate authorities (CAs) are critical links in the chain that ensures the quality and integrity of enterprise IT security, compliance and operations. CAs issue and ensure valuable third-party trust for human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications and authentication. However, leveraging the security benefits of trust providers like CAs doesn't relieve your organization of its management responsibilities.

SAIC Plans Cybersecurity Research And Development Center In Melbourne, Australia Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced its plans to expand its current Australian operations to include a regional cybersecurity research and development (R&D) center in Melbourne, Australia.

In a packed, table filled room for about 300 people, Josh Corman and Jericho opened the SOURCE Boston conference on Tuesday with a keynote address on Anonymous. The stated goal of their talk was to examine what Anonymous could look like in 2020.

Security researchers from Trusteer have shared details on a recently discovered Remote Access Trojan (RAT) attack designed to steal credit card details from hotel point of sale computer systems.

Oracle issued a massive update today to patch 88 security vulnerabilities, including dozens of remote code execution issues that can be exploited without user authentication.

“ThreatCloud” Powers New Anti-Bot and Antivirus Software Blades, Bringing Security Intelligence and Protections to Security Gateways Network security firm Check Point Software Technologies, today announced the launch of a collaborative network designed to help its customers more effectively stop attacks and thwart cybercrime, as well as share attack information and threat trends.

Privacy advocates are pressing for an investigation into Google after a report by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) failed to find evidence the search engine giant broke the law in collecting data through its Street View service.

In Public Cloud Environments, CIOs Can’t Count on Basic Firewalls and Other Mechanisms That Protect the Outer Layer of the Whole Cloud.

Researchers at Symantec recently identified 29 malicious apps in the Google Play marketplace targeting Japanese Android users.All 29 of the apps have been taken down by Google, Symantec said, but not before a wave of installations that may number as high as 300,000.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a link between an advanced persistent threat known as Luckycat and a strain of Mac malware.

AntiSec supporters, branding themselves the LulzKnights, targeted the Berrien County Sheriff's Department on Sunday. The St. Joseph, MI, law enforcement agency lost their internal emails and documents due to the incident, and they were published online. However, this breach could lead to more damage due to the number of hosted accounts that shared space with AntiSec’s victim.

Richard Perkett Joins Rapid7 to Lead Product DevelopmentBoston-based Rapid7, a provider of security risk intelligence solutions and best known for Metasploit, its penetration testing platform which the company acquired in 2009, announced that it has hired Richard Perkett as vice president of engineering.

It’s a done deal. TIBCO Software, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: TIBX) provider of infrastructure software solutions, today said that it has completed the acquisition of San Jose California-based LogLogic, a provider of and log management and security intelligence solutions.

Flashback Malware - A Detailed History of the Largest Mac OS Malware Outbreak to Date

Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a piece of ransomware targeting the master boot record to take control of a system.The move is a step beyond typical pieces of ransomware, which usually encrypt files or restricts user access to the infected system. In this case however, the malware copies the original MBR and overwrites it with its own malicious code.