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It’s time for RSA Conference again. That annual gathering of enterprise security professionals, technology manufacturers and solution providers, and partygoers, where you will find some of the brightest minds in the industry and the newest and most innovative companies with the goal of helping you better secure your enterprise.

Apple’s recent fix for the OS X privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “rootpipe” isn’t effective, according to researchers.

HP has released updates to address several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in HP Network Automation.

Malicious Hackers Can Exploit a Vulnerability in Magento to Access Credit Card DataResearchers have identified a serious vulnerability in Magento, the popular e-commerce platform owned by eBay. The security hole exposes the details of millions of individuals who shop on the hundreds of thousands of online stores that use Magento.

A security researcher was questioned by the FBI and banned from boarding a plane after he posted a message on Twitter about hacking into an aircraft’s systems.

After weeks of rumors that it was in talks to acquire Websense, defense contractor Raytheon officially said on Monday that it has entered into a agreement with Vista Equity Partners to form a new company combining Websense, a Vista portfolio company, with Raytheon Cyber Products.

Netherlands-based security solutions provider Fox-IT today announced the launch of the company’s Cyberthreat Management Platform.The new context-driven threat intelligence solution is designed to help organizations protect their systems against both known and unknown threats, Fox-IT said.

Google has a new sheriff keeping watch over the wilds of the Internet. Austrian-born Gerhard Eschelbeck has ranged the British city of Oxford; cavorted at notorious Def Con hacker conclaves, wrangled a herd of startups, and camped out in Silicon Valley. He now holds the reins of security and privacy for all-things Google.

Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. "The regional unit of computer crime managed ...to identify the presumed perpetrators" of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement.

Verizon has released its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). This year’s report is based on the analysis of more than 2,100 confirmed data breaches, and roughly 80,000 reported security incidents.

Mojang Patches Bug After Exploit Is Made Public

End Point Security Solution Integrates Cloud Analysis and Enterprise Response Capabilities Endpoint threat prevention firm Invincea, Inc., this week enhanced its offerings with new threat identification and response capabilities added to its container-based endpoint protection solution.

SANS Institute researchers advise system administrators to update their Windows operating systems as soon as possible because one of the critical vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft earlier this week is being exploited in the wild.

WikiLeaks published thousands of documents on Thursday from last year's Sony hacking scandal, calling them an insight into the inner workings of a "secretive" firm.