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President Barack Obama played his cards right with the recent roll-out of the Executive Order for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity.

How much does a breach of trust cost? Almost $400 million per organization, according to a new report looking at how organizations manage online trust with digital certificates and cryptographic keys.

WASHINGTON - The US government vowed to aggressively combat a rise in the foreign theft of trade secrets Wednesday amid mounting concerns over recent hacking attacks allegedly emanating from China.

Adobe on Wednesday issued patches to address recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat products that were found being actively exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. 

Trusteer's new exploit prevention platform protects enterprises from zero-day and social engineering attacks from successfully compromising endpoints.

WASHINGTON - Amid rising concern over alleged cyber crime originating from China, the White House will unveil a new plan Wednesday to help US firms thwart the theft of billions of dollars in trade secrets.

Discussions on making the Internet as secure as possible began alongside the growth of the Internet. And we’re still having those discussions because, as the Internet has evolved, so have the ways of securing it. Every aspect of the Internet calls for a unique means of being secured. As one example, let me address Internet security and domain names.

FireMon, a provider of security management and risk analysis solutions, this week announced the latest version of its security policy and posture management solution, Security Manager Version 7.0.

In a report from the AP, citing sources close to the plans, the U.S. will start taking more-aggressive steps against China in the wake of mounting evidence that says the PLA has been conducting systemic cyberattacks against government data and corporate secrets.

In a blog post on the company’s war against scams and spam, Google announced on Tuesday that they’ve worked-up a method that is stopping nearly all of the attacks aimed at Gmail account holders. According to the data, only .3% of the malicious or potentially unwanted messages are hitting inboxes.

BEIJING - China's defense ministry Wednesday rebuffed a report linking its People's Liberation Army to sophisticated cyberattacks on US firms, saying there was no internationally agreed definition of hacking.

F5 Networks on Tuesday announced a new solution for mobile application management to help organizations support enterprise BYOD initiatives, while giving employees more control over their personal data.

When it comes to mobility, some businesses are more willing to embrace it than others.

WASHINGTON - The United States and China on Tuesday traded charges over cyberattacks after a security firm alleged that Beijing controled hackers who have penetrated the US government, companies and media.

A rogue Google Chrome extension, a fake version of Adobe Flash Player and some Facebook "Likes" are at the center of a scam recently uncovered by researchers at Bitdefender.