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Awareness of the role threat intelligence can play in improving cyber security may be growing, but some still remain unsold on its effectiveness, a new study has shown.

Following my previous column, Taking Back the Reigns, about the need to empower network security managers and allowing them to proactively program security solution per need rather than manage reactive administration of security devices, I would like to shed some light on what the market calls “context-based security decisions and processes” and how to get there through programmability.

Systems and security management company Tanium announced on Tuesday that it has secured an additional $52 million in funding from Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Seoul - Concerned by the growing threat of cyber-attacks from North Korea, South Korea's cabinet on Tuesday approved the creation of a new presidential post handling cyber-security. The post will provide a "control tower" for efforts to counter North Korean hackers, presidential spokesman Min Kyung-Wook told reporters.

Two former federal agents have been hit with charges ranging from wire fraud to money laundering in connection with stealing Bitcoins during their investigation of the Silk Road underground market.

Cybercriminals are always on the lookout for their next scam, and appears they have found a new one.

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Cyber threat intelligence firm iSIGHT Partners has released a new Software Development Kit (SDK) and Browser Plugin in an effort to expand its threat intelligence integration capabilities.

The PCI Security Standards Council has published new guidance to help organizations develop methodology for testing the security controls and processes protecting cardholder data.

This episode is a bit of grab-bag of important points that didn't seem to fit anywhere else. Worse, some of it is going to be my opinion! I'll try to carefully delineate what is my opinion from what are facts, so we know what to argue about.

The software collaboration website GitHub said Monday it was fighting off a cyber attack since late last week, and security analysts said the effort appeared to originate in China.

Microsoft on Friday published its bi-annual Law Enforcement Requests Report and U.S. National Security Orders Report for the first half of 2014.

Nigeria's electoral commission admitted on Saturday that its website had been hacked, as the country's crucial presidential and parliamentary elections were hit by technical problems.

Schneider Electric has released software updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting the Wonderware InTouch Machine Edition 2014 and InduSoft Web Studio product lines.

Demonstrating Security ROI to Non-Technical ExecutivesWe know you get it. Today’s cyber threats require advanced security. Our traditional network and endpoint defenses are clearly outmatched and don’t stand a chance at preventing, investigating, or remediating today’s targeted attacks.