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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Japan's largest defense contractor, has been a victim of a cyber attack, according to a report from the company. The company said attackers had gained access to company computer systems, with some reports saying the attacks targeted its submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component businesses.

Like any business decision, make a plan on what new technology you are going to use, then support that plan with enabling security controls to put it into reality.

McAfee announced new security technology this week that leverages Intel hardware and could be used to fight rootkits.Dubbed DeepSafe, the technology enables McAfee to develop hardware-assisted security products that take advantage of a “deeper security footprint,” according to the company. The technology sits below the operating system, which officials hope will allow McAfee to proactively block rootkits that bury themselves in the OS to avoid detection.

The SpyEye Trojan has a well-earned place of respect in cyber-underground as an adaptable and effective piece of malware. Those same traits have also made it a bane for countless victims and the security community, and new research by Trend Micro provides yet another reminder of why.

Security experts from Sourcefire talked up the company’s “Agile Security” strategy this week, emphasizing the need for informed, adaptive and automated security products to protect today's dynamic IT environments from constantly changing threats. The strategy comes down what the company calls four essential tenets:

Co3 Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based startup, made its official debut as a company this week, and also launched its first offering—a SaaS-based data loss management solution.Looking to target an underserved aspect of breaches, Co3 says its solution can help businesses cut incident response process time by as much as half – significantly reducing the risk, expense and resources associated with data loss incidents.

FireHost, a Dallas based cloud hosting provider that has made security the focus of its offerings, today announced that it has raised $10 Million in a Series B round of funding.

The mobile industry needs to work together at pushing timely updates to Android users. The real question is motivation.With more and more mobile malware being directed at Android-based phones, you’d think the carriers and manufacturers would respond quickly to security and software updates to the underlying operating systems. According to a new survey that doesn't appear to be the case.

Tufin Technologies has updated its flagship firewall management suite with the ability to set new user and application-level policies for “next-generation” firewalls.

Patch Tuesday has arrived with a bevy of patches from Microsoft starring alongside patches from Adobe Systems.On Microsoft’s end, the company issued five security bulletins to plug a total of 15 vulnerabilities. Details of the bulletins were inadvertently made public briefly last week. All of the bulletins are rated ‘Important’, and none carry an exploitability rating higher than ‘2.’

Starting in January 2012, ICANN -- whose role is to oversee the huge and complex interconnected network of unique identifiers that allow computers on the Internet to find one another, including the Domain Name System (DNS) -- will allow applications from any company, city or organization in the world to manage their own generic top-level domain (gTLD). This new gTLD program will enable an unprecedented level of competition, and potential innovation, in the domain name market. But will this expansion...

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe’s cyber security agency, published a new report this week that focuses on App-Store Security. The report, “Appstore security: 5 lines of defence against malware,” was published in response to the increasing number of attacks targeting mobile devices via app-stores.

Dome9 Security announced the availability of its new multi-platform security management service aimed at automating cloud server security.

Symantec today announced Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service for enterprises with large numbers of certificates used for business authentication and data encryption on servers.The solution, powered by VeriSign, discovers, centralizes, and provides reports to help enable organizations to proactively manage certificates from any Certificate Authority (CA). For the first time, enterprises have total visibility and control over their certificates, enabling them to reduce risk, costs and operational inefficiencies.

If Patch Tuesday is a party, this would be the IT security version of pre-gaming.On Aug. 9, Microsoft accidentally released information on the five security updates it is planning to release tomorrow as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday. The information, which has since been taken down, represents a rare procedural slip-up in the company’s Patch process. Normally, Microsoft publishes an advanced notification the Thursday before Patch Tuesday – the second Tuesday of every month – and then posts no...

Oculis Labs, a developer of data privacy software that protects mobile and desktop computers from visual eavesdroppers, today announced a partnership agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit, venture capital arm of the CIA. The company said In-Q-Tel’s relationship and investment would help it accelerate Oculis Labs’ success in both government and commercial markets.

GlobalSign Acknowledges Breach of Web Server - Investigation ContinuesGlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA), acknowledged late Friday that it found evidence of a breach to a web server hosting its Web site.

Apple has released an update to address compromised certificates from DigiNotar, more than a week after news of the attack first broke.

Security Researchers Stole 120,000 e-mails and 20 GB of Corporate Data From Fortune 500 Companies via Typosquatting.

Watching Anonymous in action is far better than most of the programming on television. Anonymous seems to be in a never-ending battle against the “evils” that surround mere mortals. Recent past battles have been waged against PayPal, Master Card, Visa and the Church of Scientology. Now Facebook appears to be squarely in Anonymous’ sights.