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Creepiness is a negative visceral reaction, like something crawling on your skin. It can be triggered when you feel your personal privacy is violated. Companies don’t want to make you feel creepy… but they do. And if they do so a lot, you go buy elsewhere. So it’s important not to be creepy. But what is creepy, changes.

Skyhigh Networks, a startup that emerged from stealth mode earlier this year, announced that its flagship cloud visibility and control solution is now available.

Microsoft released fixes for 23 security vulnerabilities today including critical patches for Internet Explorer and Windows. The fixes are spread across eight security bulletins. Three of them – covering issues in Internet Explorer (IE), Exchange and Windows – are rated 'Critical.' The remaining five are classified as 'Important.'

Central Tibetan Administration Website (Tibet.Net) Compromised In Watering Hole Attack

OSLO - Norway's intelligence agency has blocked US company Apple from flying over Oslo to take 3D aerial photos for its map application, citing national security, officials said Tuesday.

A recently patched zero-day vulnerability in the Joomla platform became an open gateway for attackers to compromise thousands of sites, according to findings by security firm Versafe.

Cyvera, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based security startup working on solutions to help block zero-day attacks, has raised $11 million in venture capital funding, the company said Tuesday.

In one of the biggest blockbuster movies of the 1990’s, Armageddon, there is a scene shortly after they discover the existence of the killer asteroid on a path towards Earth where Dan Truman (played by Billy Bob Thornton) says something to the effect of “for years people have been questioning the need for NASA, let’s show them that their money was not wasted.”

SEOUL - North Korea, one of the most isolated and censored societies on the planet, has unveiled what it says is a domestically-produced smartphone. Industry analysts say the "Arirang", built around Google's Android OS, is likely manufactured in neighboring China, however.

Malicious Web advertising has long been a way for attackers to compromise PCs, but now the technique appears to be making its way to the world of mobile devices.

NEW YORK CITY - A New York regulator announced a probe into virtual currencies like Bitcoin Monday, saying they could be used by drug traffickers and gun runners and threaten US national security.

Google announced on Monday that it has paid out more than $2,000,000 in rewards for vulnerabilities found in its products as part of its security reward initiatives. Since introducing a rewards program for security flaws found in its Chromium and Google Web properties, Google said that it has rewarded and fixed more than 2,000 reports of security flaws.

A new study from the Ponemon Institute shows that companies are increasingly looking towards cyber-security insurance to shield them in the event of a cyber-attack.

BOGOTA - Colombian officials will raise the issue of US electronic surveillance on Monday during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry, the American ambassador said.