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On Tuesday, Israeli data protection firm Porticor released the latest version of its Virtual Private Data (VPD) system. The VPD system is designed to protect data in cloud environments that were previously considered untrusted, and does so while the data is at rest or in use.

A dizzying array of services and products are available to people interested in embarking on the cyber-crime lifestyle. The offerings cover the entire criminal enterprise from getting started, distribution, and monetizing attacks, and aren't all that expensive, according to an analysis of the underground market by Trend Micro.

WASHINGTON - US telecom networks took a hit from superstorm Sandy, which knocked out some emergency call centers in the northeast, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski told reporters that a "very small number" of emergency call centers were knocked out in the storm, causing urgent 911 calls to be rerouted, in some cases without the normal location identifiers.

More than 17,000 credit reports have been exposed as a result of attacks at financial institutions and other organizations over the past six years. Attackers grabbed credit reports using stolen login credentials to credit reporting bureaus.

Secunia, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based provider of vulnerability management solutions, has updated its vulnerability management platform to proactively alert organizations of software vulnerabilities so they can hopefully be addressed before infrastructure is compromised.

DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, is a protocol created to allow mail services to verify the authenticity of the mail messages they deliver.

Storage giant EMC today said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Silver Tail Systems, a provider of web session intelligence and behavioral analytics for fraud and cybercrime detection.

Security firm Imperva has published its hacker intelligence report for October, which is the company’s second report focusing on the activity of one of the Web’s largest hacking forums. In addition to training resources, such as tutorials and scripts, Imperva also detected a market for social networking fraud. “By examining what information hackers seek out or share in these forums, we can better understand where they are focusing their efforts,” said Amichai Shulman, Imperva’s CTO.

A recent study by AT&T and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) has discovered that while a majority of small businesses allow the use of mobile devices (phones and tablets), very few of them are taking any proactive measures when it comes to device security.

Security firm Trend Micro said late Monday that it has obtained samples of the malware that is assumed to be responsible for infecting systems at the Israeli police department and effectively knocking them offline.

A new report from Trend Micro highlights how network traffic can be used to detect advanced persistent threats (APTs) through the correlation of threat intelligence.

According to The Hill, a blog reporting on Congressional activities, the cybersecurity bill that has had a rocky life in Washington is now likely dead. Both sides of the political spectrum are showing little interest in working out the issues.

On Friday, Mozilla issued another security fix for issues discovered after the release of Firefox 16.0.1, which if exploited, would allow Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) or code execution. The latest release is available now in the update channel and for direct download. Friday’s release marks the third time this month that security issues needed to be addressed. It’s also the 14th critical fix released for version 16.

WASHINGTON - It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.

WatchGuard Technologies, a Seattle, Washington-based IT security solutions vendor, said early this week that its UTM security appliances will soon be able to configure themselves, thanks to “RapidDeploy”, a new cloud-based configuration utility.