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Cyber weapons may be cheaper to make than tanks and nuclear arms, but they come with a dangerous caveat – once they are discovered, the target-er can become the targeted.

NEW YORK - BlackBerry launched its comeback effort Wednesday with a revamped platform and a pair of sleek new handsets, along with a company name change as part of a move to reinvent the smartphone maker.

NEW YORK - Internet companies will soon have to find a way to protect user privacy to avert a "clash" which could lead to increased government regulation, eBay chief executive John Donahoe said Wednesday.

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Kaspersky Launches New Endpoint Security Platform For BusinessesKaspersky Lab, the Russian security firm with its US headquarters in Woburn, Mass., on Wednesday unveiled its latest generation of business security solutions.

When it comes to phishing attacks, it appears Web browsers are doing a better job detecting and blocking them than end point security suites, according to a new report.

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An internal audit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has discovered a backlog that poses a significant risk to its cybercrime investigative progress, meaning some crimes may go without investigation, officials fear.

Mozilla is making changes to an initiative called "Click to Play", which has been in existence since Firefox 17 was released, that prevents Firefox from automatically loading plug-ins unless the user authorizes it. The move is aimed at helping Firefox improve performance, while adding a side benefit of security.

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Claims Victory After Anti-Islam Video is Pulled From YouTube

Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, on Wednesday announced a new tool designed to detect and disable malicious backdoors on compromised Web servers.

In effort to help customers detect threats that can hide within the massive amounts of data that reside within enterprise walls, IBM on Wednesday announced “IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data”, a new offering that combines security intelligence with big data analytics capabilities.

A Glendale, California man accused of hacking into hundreds of Facebook, Skype, and e-mail accounts and extorting women into showing him their naked bodies was arrested on federal computer hacking charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, 27, was arrested on Jan. 29 without incident by special agents with the FBI.

A new report from Arbor Networks shows that while the size of distributed denial-of-service attacks have started to plateau, application-layer and multi-vector attacks continue to evolve.

WatchDox, a provider of enterprise solutions to access, share and control sensitive documents, today announced that is has received a $12 million investment, bringing total company funding to-date to $35 million.