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Silent Circle, a startup providing private encrypted communications solutions, has shut down an encrypted email service that it offered as part of its secure communications offerings.

Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale, California-based provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, announced that it has agreed to acquire Armorize Technologies, a maker of cloud-based anti-malware products for roughly $25 million in cash.

Security software maker ESET this week launched the latest version of its mobile security solution for Android. Completely rebuilt and redesigned, the new ESET Mobile Security for Android brings improved scanning, an anti-phishing module and a redesigned user interface, the company said.

SAN FRANCISCO - An encrypted email service believed to have been used by US leaker Edward Snowden shut down on Thursday apparently as a result of pressure from US authorities.

Microsoft is prepping eight security bulletins for next week's Patch Tuesday release.

The federal government is planning to offer critical infrastructure companies incentives to join a voluntary program designed to improve cybersecurity.

Modern networks have expanded. Their components constantly evolve and spawn new attack vectors including endpoints, mobile devices, web-enabled and mobile applications, virtual infrastructure, data centers, social media, web browsers and home computers. These networks are complex to deploy, manage and secure. Any gap in protection across this extended network can have a ‘ripple effect’ across your entire IT environment, exposing your organization to greater security risk.

In a much-anticipated move, FireEye has filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry announced on Thursday that the U.S. Defense Information System Agency (DISA) has given its BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, the “Authority to Operate” (ATO) on Department of Defense (DoD) networks.

MOSCOW - The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was forced to deny rumors of his death after hackers planted a false report on Twitter accounts of a state news agency. "I'm alive and well," Gorbachev late Wednesday told the website of Novaya Gazeta newspaper, using a blanked-out Russian expletive to describe his ill-wishers who he said were "hoping in vain".

SAN FRANCISCO - Nintendo said Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against a US website with a business model built on hacking into the company's videogame hardware. Nintendo is suing HackYourConsole.com in federal court in the operation's home state of Florida.

Researchers from RSA have uncovered a new banking Trojan designed to steal information from machines running the Linux operating system.  Dubbed “Hand of Thief”, the Trojan is reportedly being sold in closed cybercrime communities for $2,000 with free updates.

Most large organizations are not quite ready to accept the security implications of renting unknown machines from public cloud providers, but transforming data centers to private clouds is in full speed and showing no sign of slowing down. While private clouds are under the control of the corporate IT department, it does not mean that migrating a data center to a private cloud is free of security implications.

BeyondTrust has released a free tool designed to give organizations the ability to track and understand configuration changes and administrative activities for security and compliance reporting for Google Apps.

BRASÍLIA - Brazil-based American reporter Glenn Greenwald said Tuesday that he had received more than 15,000 secret US government documents from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.