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By Taking The Approach of Assuming You Have Been Hacked, It Can Go a Long Way In Being Proactive About Possible Attacks...Information security practitioners have always considered "keeping the bad guys out" a core element of their profession, but the flood of highly-publicized security breaches (together with an unknown but likely higher number of unpublicized breaches) clearly demonstrates that we are not excelling at this task, to put things lightly.

At its North America Community Meeting on Thursday, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), the standards body that oversees the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), released best practices for mobile payment acceptance security.

Microsoft scored another legal victory in its legal assault against botnets this week after a court gave the company the OK to seize control of a domain linked to malicious activity.

Anonymous on Thursday posted credit card numbers in retaliation for what it claimed was an FBI raid arresting one of its members. The group said Barrett Brown was arrested in an FBI raid while participating in an online chat Wednesday. Contacted by AFP, the FBI declined to comment. But a video posted by the group, a loosely knit collective with no clearly defined leadership structure, showed the chat interrupted by what appeared to be a raid.

Cybersecurity services firm KEYW Corporation (NASDAQ: KEYW) announced after the bell on Thursday that it would acquire Sensage, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and event data warehousing solutions, in a cash and stock deal valued at up to $34.5 million.

A new version of the Black Hole exploit kit has been released with updated features designed to fight off efforts by security researchers to combat it.

Global Security Infrastructure Market To Grow 8.4 Percent
 In 2012According to data released by Gartner, worldwide spending on security is expected to rise to $60 billion in 2012, up 8.4 percent from $55 billion in 2011.

Government budgets are not infinite, but with some work, they can be made a bit more elastic. Stretching a budget however means finding efficiencies that will allow agencies to cut costs, and that, means understanding what your organization needs to protect and prioritizing, according to attendees at the (ISC)2 Security Congress in Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON - The leaders of a congressional probe into two Chinese telecom giants expressed fresh concerns Thursday about the firm's links to the Beijing government, as the companies defended their integrity.

Threat prevention provider FireEye, and Splunk, the recently gone public provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from multiple sources, today announced the availability of Splunk for FireEye, an application that makes information on inbound and outbound events from

An Opportunity for Datacenters with a Real Security Service Centric Approach

McAfee today announced that Mike Fey has been appointed as Worldwide Chief Technology Officer.