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WASHINGTON - Facebook users began sharing more private data after the social network giant revamped its policies and interface, according to a study released Tuesday.

A new study by CA Technologies and Ponemon Institute shows that many companies are more confident about security in the cloud, but that the forecast is far from sunny.

Researchers at BitDefender have found a new version of the MiniDuke malware that has been operating for at least 21 months.

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered “AlbaBotnet”, an emerging botnet that appears to be gearing up to inflict financial damage on accounts at banks in Chili.According to Kaspersky researchers, AlbaBotnet focuses on utilizing targeted phishing attacks designed to steal online accounts details, currently at two major Chilean banks.

A vulnerability patched in February by Oracle has been added to the Blackhole Exploit Kit, researchers have discovered. This wouldn’t normally be a headline event in and of itself, but most people seem to ignore Java once installed, and are vulnerable to dozens of attacks thinks to kits like this and the number of issues in the Java codebase.

For the third time in less than a month, organizations and home users who are still using Java, for whatever reason that may be, now need to apply yet another update. This latest patch, released Monday, addresses a bug that was first reported more than a month ago.

A few months ago, I wrote a column expressing my deep concern over the lack of progress in the debate about domain name registration data (a/k/a the WHOIS). The debate aims to reach collective understanding and agreement regarding the purpose of that data and, specifically, who should have access to it and how.

Security researchers have linked a reputed industrial espionage campaign to the attack that compromised security vendor Bit9.

Online note-taking service Evernote has reset passwords for millions of its users after detecting a malicious attack.

PRAGUE - Hackers attacked several top Czech news websites on Monday, overloading them with hundreds of thousands of requests per second to make them inaccessible, publishers said. "News servers have been facing a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack since 8:30 am (0730 GMT)," iDNES.cz, the website of the top-selling Czech broadsheet DNES, said on its Facebook profile.

Despite the changing threat landscape and all the security challenges we face today, there are many reasons for the security industry to be optimistic, a Microsoft executive said at the RSA Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2013 - A two-person panel tackled a provocative question head-on at the RSA Conference on Thursday: Is software security a waste of time for most companies?

Security researchers have uncovered a highly-customized piece of malware that has been leveraging a recently patched exploit in Adobe Reader.