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The Harvard Crimson has reported that an undergraduate student was dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into the online accounts of faculty members.

AT&T, working with local officials and business leaders, is conducting a full-scale disaster recovery simulation - a Network Disaster Recovery Exercise - in the Metro Detroit area from May 6 to May 14 near The Dearborn Inn.Last week, a fleet of 22 semi-tractor trailers was brought into Dearborn, loaded with networking equipment for creating a temporary central network office. A team of more than 60 permanent and volunteer NDR team members assembled and turned up the central network office, first...

The Avalanche phishing gang was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks on the Internet according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s semiannual Global Phishing Survey.

 New platform and API to provide customers a way to unify security management across physical and virtual infrastructures.

Cloud Security Study: IT Unaware of All Cloud Services Used in Their Enterprise; Less Than Half of are Properly Evaluated for Security

Twitter is being flooded with reports of DNS outages in Germany, Austria and some other European countries. Many users are reporting ".de" domains not resolving and that several root servers are failing.Update 9:24AM EST: The issue seems to be limited to .de domain names due to an outage of .de zone TLD servers. The problem appears to be in a configuration or database issue as some domains are working and some are not. For example, as of now, facebook.de works...

A survey of 353 network administrators entitled “What Keeps Network Administrators Up At Night,” asked the administrators to rank their top three priorities, with the results showing that 25% ranked "securing remote access" as being their top priority, while 15% said "keeping viruses definitions up to date" was a top priority.

On October 21, 2002, the Internet’s core root server system as a whole came under a significant attack. A coordinated distributed denial-of-service attack aimed to knock the 13 domain name system root servers – the closest thing the Internet has to a single point of failure – offline. Had it succeeded, electronic communications would have eventually frozen up and e-commerce would have slowly ground to a halt. The economic consequences could have been dire.

Verizon Business today announced Enterprise Mobility as a Service, further adding its "everything-as-a-service" (EaaS) portfolio of cloud-based business solutions.

From interacting on social network sites, to disabling company installed security software so they can access restricted Web sites, most employees were more focused on individual concerns and conveniences than their company's overall IT security, according to the 2010 Trend Micro survey on corporate and small business end users.

A domestic and international enforcement initiative targeting the illegal distribution of counterfeit network hardware manufactured in China has resulted in 30 felony convictions and more than 700 seizures of counterfeit Cisco network hardware and labels with an estimated retail value of more than $143 million.

Electronic Payment services provider, ProPay, today announced it has added encryption and tokenization to its Automated Clearing House (ACH) transaction data within its ProtectPay line of services.

In a much anticipated announcement, McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) reported Wednesday that Jonathan Chadwick will join the company as chief financial officer.

Verizon is joining forces with the United States Secret Service on a 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report.

Managed security services (MSS) in the Asia-Pacific market is forecasted to grow at rate of 19.7 percent annually for the next five years, exceeding US$4 billion by end-2015.Cathy Huang, industry analyst from Frost & Sullivan, expects growing adoption for Managed Security Services by small and medium businesses (SMBs).

On demand IT security risk and compliance solutions provider, Qualys, and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), have expanded their technology partnership to make QualysGuard vulnerability management and IT policy compliance data available to RSA’s client base.

TechCrunch Europe this morning broke a story on a major

Palo Alto Networks, today announced new functionality that enables enterprises to control Facebook Social Plug-ins, helping to ease some of the growing privacy concerns associated with facebook’s connection to third party Web sites.

Top 10 Malware Threats for AprilSunbelt Software has announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of April 2010. With nine of ten detections from March still on the list for April, it shows continued prevalence of Trojan horse programs circulating on the Internet. A new loader for a rogue security product making it into the top 10.