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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.

Security startup NetCitadel made its debut as a company on Tuesday, along with launching the OneControl Security Orchestration Platform, its answer to making existing security infrastructure more intelligent and responsive.

Researchers at Rapid7 have uncovered that roughly 40-50 million network-enabled devices are at risk due to vulnerabilities in the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

Hosting Provider Says Cross-Site Scripting Attacks Jumped 160 Percent in Q4 2012

My business is all about being predictive – determining in advance what could happen from a cyber-security standpoint. But I’m also a CEO, so predictions about the business of security are always on my mind. This year, there is a great deal of change in the air as companies are beginning to ask themselves what the value of security is and appreciate that point products alone are just not going to get the job done.

Google on Monday said they are offering up serious money the security research community to help them find and fix vulnerabilities in Chrome OS.

According to a recent survey conducted by Varonis, a data governance solutions provider, data security in virtualized environments is often neglected by IT organizations.

Oracle's approach to Java security has been under heavy scrutiny of late, with some in the security community renewing calls for enterprises to disable Java due to the number of vulnerabilities and its popularity with exploit writers.

According to a report from Sophos, the Citadel crime kit is branching out from its Zeus roots, and the criminals responsible for the botnet’s operations are opting to take quality over quantity when it comes to victims.

On Monday, Vormetric announced the release of Vormetric Vault, a solution the company says is a scalable all-in-one measure for organizations looking to secure certificates, encryption keys, and other security objects including password files.

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Monday that worldwide requests from governments about its users rose nearly 20 percent in second half of 2012 as it sought to raise awareness about "invasive" actions.The popular messaging platform said information requests in the July-December period numbered 1,009, up from 849 in the prior six months.