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A new survey of 104 security professionals in the energy sector gave a big thumbs down to smart meter security.

Controversial Domain Registrar Tightens Policy After Reports of Rogue Online Pharmacy LinksRegistrar Internet.bs has changed its domain name registration policy in light of reports criticizing its links to as many as one-third of the rogue pharmacies on the Internet.

On Friday, Palo Alto Networks, the network security firm that has made its mark developing next generation firewalls, filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a widely-anticipated initial public offering.

Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things on the compromised device including recording calls and surrounding noise.

Supports of Anonymous targeted the U.K. on Saturday, hitting the websites of the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. While the attack only lasted a short time, Anonymous has said to expect more of the same as they push forward. Currently, the next target is said to be the GCHQ on April 14.

Utah Department of Health Suffers Data Breach Aimed at Medicaid

Network attacks and breaches have dominated the technical and mainstream news for the past 18 months, as attacks have grown both in volume and significance. Hacktivists used data breaches to embarrass their enemies, nation-states used intrusions to steal secrets and even directly attack infrastructure, and organized crime used breaches for good old-fashioned theft.

GreenSQL, a company that SecurityWeek first met earlier this year during the RSA Conference, recently released the results of a poll that included more than 6,000 customers, IT administrators, DBAs, InfoSec practitioners, and consultants. The results, when focused on information security and database security, show that the majority fear SQL Injection vulnerabilities.

What to Do When Your Website Has Been HackedWhile the following is by no means exhaustive, here are a few suggestions to begin with if your web site has been hacked.

John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer from 1999 to 2004, was indicted on Thursday for allegedly disclosing classified information to journalists. The restricted disclosure included the name of a covert officer and information related to the role a CIA employee played in classified operations.His indictment comes following an investigation that was triggered by what the Department of Justice is calling a “classified defense filing” back in January 2009.

Security firm Sophos with dual headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, made a decision to disable its partner portal following a breach that was discovered earlier this week. According to a notice on the portal itself, Sophos doesn’t know if any sensitive data was accessed including passwords and email addresses. Until the investigation in to the breach is concluded, the portal will remain offline.

Containing the Global Cybercrime Threat is The Focus of The CeCOS VI Summit Taking Place in Prague, Czech Republic Later This MonthLater this month, global leaders from various industries, government, law enforcement, communications sectors, and research centers will gather in in Prague, Czech Republic for the Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI).

Microsoft is prepping six security bulletins to cover 11 vulnerabilities as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday.

Security researchers say the Flashback malware hitting Mac OS X machines has built a powerful botnet of more than 550,000 computers.

In Australia, the local police will be informing businesses and residents that their wireless signal is unprotected and therefore open for criminal activity.According to the Sydney Morning Herald, police in Queensland will be the first to provide the new service. It is hoped that securing wireless in the area will help cut down on the number of cases of fraud, however, this is still just an informational campaign with no fines for non-compliance.

Trends Including Virtualization, Bring-Your-Own-Device and Cloud Computing are Making Data Center Security Increasingly Complex.

Dell SecureWorks recently published a report on the Waledac / Kelihos botnet and its role in a recent takedown operation. Unfortunately, while the initial efforts were successful, the controllers of the botnet have moved on and resumed operations.

A spam campaign leveraging the US Airways brand in order to get attention is offering something far more sinister than reservation details and travel information.

Lookout Mobile Security has discovered a new variant of the Legacy Native (LaNa) malware for Android which opens a backdoor to the device. Unlike previous versions of LaNa, where the device had to first be rooted and depended on user interaction, this new variant doesn’t require the user at all, and will work on non-rooted devices.

McAfee today launched a new agentless AntiVirus (AV) solution for its McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) platform that provides protection against various physical and virtual attacks through a single console.Designed to integrate with VMware vShield™ Endpoint, the solution offers customers standardized security across all major hypervisor vendors and addresses the challenges of protecting virtual environments in order to keep them malware-free.