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Organizations are being challenged to manage the BYOD (bring your own device, which most reports refer to as "consumerization") trend as more employees use powerful and affordable personal mobile devices. More than half of information technology leaders in the US believe that BYOD poses a greater risk to the enterprise than mobile devices supplied by the company, according to a new member survey by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Yet 27 percent still believe that the benefits...

Google announced today that via its “cloud-based security and abuse detection systems,” it uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. “This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S.

Researchers from universities and national laboratories in the United States are developing software that mimics ant behavior as a new approach to network security.

Got a Plan to Fight Cybercrime? Don’t Be a Victim. Invest in Your Defenses Now. Cybercrime is on the rise. And it’s no wonder. It’s an incredibly lucrative “business.” In fact, now more profitable than the illegal drug trade, cybercrime generates some $100 billion globally per year.

Trustwave, an information security and compliance solutions provider that recently filed to go public, today announced new features to its Unified Threat Management (UTM) service that provides critical network protection and address regulatory compliance requirements.

As I wrote in an earlier column, “The Optimist’s Cybercrime Predictions for 2011”, in recent years many efforts have been taken to improve the collaboration between various law enforcement agencies around the world. International task forces were established, and cybercrime conferences aimed at law enforcement provide important networking opportunities for agents, allowing them to build relationships with one another.

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NetQin Mobile today warned that it had discovered malware embedded in more than 20 Android applications circulating via various forums on the Internet which auto-dials phone numbers to incur high user fees. The infected mobile applications include QQ Doudizhu, Voice SMS, Drag Racing, Trader, Donkey Jump, Jungle Monkey and Gold Miner among others.

Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS Web servers and were able publish a fake news story on a PBS news blog. The hackers also published PBS internal user login information that they were able to siphon from PBS databases. The fake story was about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996 after being shot in Las Vegas, being been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand. (See screenshot as the story...

Lockheed Martin says a swift, deliberate response helped thwart an IT breach following a "significant and tenacious attack" on its network.On Saturday, May 21, Lockheed Martin detected what it called a “significant and tenacious attack on its information systems network.”

As the governments of the world work to establish the right balance between control and freedom, it has proven to be a double-edged sword.

MobileIron, a provider of management and security solutions for mobile devices, raised another significant amount of cash as it looks to carve a leadership position in the mobile security space.

According to a report coming from Reuters, Lockheed Martin, the largest provider of IT services, systems integration, and training to the U.S. Government, is experiencing a major disruption to its computer systems, possibly related to a network security issue, sources familiar with the issue told Reuters on Thursday.

Tonight at 9PM EST, CNBC will air “Code Wars: America’s Cyber Threat,” a CNBC Original that investigates global cyber threats, and explores the vulnerabilities we face as a nation.

Damballa Inc., a company that helps identify and defend against cyber threats, today launched the latest version of its cyber threat solution designed to detect subscriber malware infections in Internet service provider (ISP) and telecommunications provider networks.Damballa CSP 1.6, identifies cyber threat activity on any type of subscriber device including PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android and all mobile and smartphone platforms by monitoring a carrier’s DNS activity for malicious network traffic.

According to a report released by NetQin Mobile, users in China fell victim to about 64% of the world's mobile attacks on Android devices in the first quarter of 2011.

Core Security Technologies, a Boston based provider of security testing and measurement solutions, today announced enhancements to its CORE INSIGHT Enterprise solution, featuring a new attack path simulation that can simulate an enterprise environment and show potential paths that an attacker could take and the exploits that could be used to conduct an attack.

StillSecure, a managed network security and compliance solutions provider, today unveiled a suite of managed security services for both public and private cloud environments.

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain” -William JamesI was reminded when talking to a friend and colleague this week that security is, fundamentally, about people. It is basically a social activity for all that we focus so intently on the technology and on the minutiae of events. And while there isn’t always a traitor to point to, there is always a uniquely Human dimension to security.