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Mozilla has removed the latest version of their FireFox Web browser just over a day after it was released, due to a vulnerability that was discovered after it had shipped. The action was dismissed by many, simply an example of a organization protecting users by fixing a flaw. However, opponents of their new release schedule say this most recent event could have been prevented with proper checking.

A recent report from Blue Coat Systems, has revealed that the number of malicious networks – or "Malnets" – has tripled in the last six months. Collectively, the Malnets themselves are responsible for millions of attacks each month on systems used at home and the office.

Iranian official Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of the communications and IT of the NIOOC (Nat’l Iranian Offshore Oil Company), said that Israel launched a cyber attack against his company, and was soundly defeated before it could cause any damage.

While There are Numerous Options on How to Protect Mobile Payments, Attaining Impermeable Protection is Non-Negotiable.

Professional, coordinated attackers with a plan, breached a server maintained by Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) and walked off with nearly 300,000 records, and have used the information to commit at least 50 acts of identity theft, the school’s president said.

The Irish version of Google and Yahoo briefly went offline on Tuesday when unknown perpetrators managed to change the sites' Domain Name Server records, according to the IE Domain Registry. A "security incident" on Tuesday resulted in the DNS nameserver records for two "high profile .ie domains" to be changed, IEDR said in a statement on its site Wednesday. There was apparently an "unauthorized access" to a registrar's account which resulted in the change, according to the statement.

Less than two years after being aquired by Intel, McAfee said that it will be laying off a "small percentage" of the now-security division's roughly 7,100 employees, according to a report that was confirmed with SecurityWeek on Thursday.

HyTrust 3.0 Integrates ‘Secondary Approval’ Feature To Safeguard Against Operational Downtime and Internal Security Breaches.At the RSA Europe Conference in London this week, HyTrust, a provider of policy management and access control solutions for virtual environments, released version 3.0 of its HyTrust Appliance.

If you and your co-workers are looking forward to Friday, you are not alone – phishers are looking forward to it as well. In an analysis of phishing schemes between July and August, researchers at Websense found that 38.5 percent of the phishing attacks they detected were conducted on Friday, with Monday (30 percent) and Sunday (10.9 percent) coming in at second and third, respectively. 

SHANGHAI - Chinese telecom firm ZTE, accused by American lawmakers of doing business with Iran and posing a security threat, says US network giant Cisco Systems has ended a cooperation deal with it.

Successful conduct of military operations requires a unit’s clear understanding of the battle space it controls and its “area of operations”. This includes not only the terrain of the battlefield but also the capabilities, motives, and determination of the enemy they face.

OTTAWA - Canada said Tuesday it had invoked a "national security exception" that could exclude China's Huawei Technologies from a role in helping build its new super secure government network.