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PARIS - A French court ruled Thursday that Twitter, which has steadfastly refused calls to police its millions of users, must hand over data to help identify the authors of racist or anti-Semitic tweets.

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LONDON - Electronics giant Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation videogames consoles.

Apperian, a Boston, Massachusetts-based Enterprise mobile application management (MAM) firm, on Wednesday announced that it has received a strategic investment from Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel.

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Three men accused of infecting more than a million computers worldwide with the Gozi banking Trojan and looting online banking accounts are in custody, U.S. law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Infoblox unveiled three new offerings designed to give customers greater security and control over their networks.

Cisco on Wednesday issued a warning that its Wireless LAN Controller (Cisco WLC) products are affected by multiple security vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could enable an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition, allow unauthorized access, or execute code remotely.

Akamai Technologies released its Third Quarter, 2012 State of the Internet report on Wednesday, sharing data gathered from its massive global, and providing insight into global Internet statistics including connection speeds, attack traffic, and network connectivity, availability, and more.

Cyber-Ark Software on Wednesday released its new SSH Proxy solution, an offering designed to secure, audit, and report on privileged SSH activity within UNIX environments.

Microsoft has suggested that users and businesses switch to Skype following the scheduled shutdown of the MSN Messenger service in March. The problem, however, is that criminals are starting to migrate to that platform if recent discoveries from Trend Micro are any indication.

In press conference discussing their 2012 performance on Monday, which was part of the company’s efforts to be more transparent to lawmakers, Huawei's CFO, Cathy Meng, expressed frustration about the recent wave of security concerns being expressed by lawmakers in Washington.

On Monday, McAfee outlined its plans for the Security Connected framework, which enables security products to work together. According to a statement from Intel’s security arm, McAfee plans expand on R&D efforts, continue to make acquisitions, and develop additional partnerships in order to meet their initiative’s goals.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Wednesday reported a "steady increase" in government requests to hand over data from Internet users in the second half of 2012. The Web giant's semiannual "transparency report" showed the most requests came from the the United States, with 8,438 requests for information about 14,868 users.

Symantec on Wednesday announced that it has split the roles of chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Dan Schulman was elected to the position of non-executive chairman while Steve Bennett remains president and chief executive officer, the company said.