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Relations Between London and Beijing Have Deteriorated in the Last Nine Nonths, with the Security Services Reporting a Rise in Chinese Cyber-espionage.LONDON - A split has emerged in the British government on managing its cooling relations with China, The Sunday Times newspaper said, citing sources.

Last week, security researchers from FireEye identified a PDF zero-day that was being used in targeted attacks. Shortly after, Adobe confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI for Windows and Macintosh that were being exploited in active attacks.

PARIS - European data protection agencies intend to take action against the US Internet giant Google after it failed to follow their orders to comply with EU privacy laws, a French agency said on Monday. In October the data protection agencies warned Google that its new privacy policy did not comply with EU laws and gave it four months to comply or face legal action.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook said Friday its computer system was "targeted in a sophisticated attack" last month, but that it found no evidence any user data was compromised.

A new poll from Tenable Network Security addresses the views of Americans when it comes to cyberwarfare, or more pointedly, their concerns. As it turns out, a majority of the 1,100 people polled have some legitimate worries.

NT OBJECTives this week launched NTOSpider 6.0, the latest version of its web application scanner, which now enables security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in mobile, web services and CSRF protected sites that make use of modern application technologies.

According to a recent study from ISACA, one in five enterprises have experienced an APT attack. In addition, 94 percent of the 1,500 IT professionals surveyed agreed that APTs represent a credible threat to national security.

For at least six weeks, a subdomain for the Los Angeles Times was redirecting visitors to a separate domain hosting the Blackhole Exploit Kit. The story was broken by Brian Krebs, and confirmed by both the news organization and security firm Avast.

Mac security software maker Intego released is 2013 line of antivirus and security products for the Mac OS X, along with ESET who launched its latest Mac specific security suite late last month.

There is No Stopping the BYOD Wave. The Difficulty is the Complexity Involved...

U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to sign an executive order on cybersecurity has not quelled the debate regarding the necessity of legislation.

Some the biggest names in the certificate authority world banded together and launched a new organization dedicated to strengthening the CA infrastructure.

BlackBerry issued fixes this week for critical vulnerabilities in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) that could result in escalation of privileges and arbitrary code execution.

Researchers have observed a recent spike in attacks against the Uyghur community to monitor their email and chat activities, according AlienVault and Kaspersky Lab.

The first two months of 2013 witnessed a level of escalation in cyber espionage and cyber exploitation incidents that few would have predicted or felt was possible even a few months ago outside of a small circle of mavericks.