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Verizon Wireless appears to be the latest victim of a vishing attack, with a well-crafted scam targeting its customers and looking to capture sensitive customer information.

Protegrity, a provider of data security solutions, on Wednesday announced Protegrity Vaultless Tokenization, an offering designed to help payment processors and gateways cost-effectively provide tokenization services to their clients.That company says it can now support the largest companies in the payments industry with a lightweight tokenization solution that can scale to thousands of merchants, quickly, without the cost and complexity of backend database infrastructure.

Companies Join Forces to Deliver Android-based Commercial Smartphones and Tablets with Defense-grade Security

The National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, an initiative of the National Security Agency, aims to increase the amount of professionals with expertise in this area. The program is designed to identify institutions that offer a deeply technical, interdisciplinary curriculum centered on fields such as computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. In addition, it supports the government's work to better protect cyberspace.

Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) is introducing a management track to its master’s degree in cyber security. The first classes begin this summer."We created the management track in response to calls from industry for highly qualified executives with strong technical knowledge," said NYU-Poly Computer Science and Engineering Professor Nasir Memon."It will prepare graduates to manage a team of cyber-security personnel as well as a command of the business acumen to secure information in line with company objectives."

Intel has released a single sign-on application that will enable enterprises to use Salesforce.com credentials on all of the Force.com applications, in addition to scores of others across the Web. More over, Intel’s Cloud SSO service offers two-factor authentication options and has detailed reporting implemented from the start.

ICSA Labs this week launched a testing program designed to help determine whether smartphones and tables meet the latest security standards for connecting with Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).Generically named “Mobile Device VPN Security”, the new program is available immediately for wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. According to ICSA Labs, Verizon Wireless is the program's first customer—not surprising since ICSA Labs is a division of Verizon.

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Revelations about a recent breach of confidential data in Utah highlights how configuration errors can end up being costly.A recent data breach that exposed personal information for nearly 800,000 people in Utah also exposed how lethal configuration mistakes and policy failures can be in the world of security.

For those purists within the auditing and network exploration community, there is good news this week – Nmap version 6.0 has been released to the public. Nmap is the standard for security audits and exploration, and the latest version has some useful improvements.Version 6 includes improvements to the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), which includes a bump in script count. Nmap 5 included a script count of 59, where version 6 has grown to 348, and each one has been documented and...

The popularity of the Android platform, combined with the openness that it represents, has created model that allows developers of all shapes and sizes to create unique works. Yet, this same openness has allowed criminals to create works with malicious intent. Thus, a North Carolina State University researcher has sat out to map the Android Malware Genome in an effort to spread information and combat the malicious side of Android development.

Building on their previous initiative to warn users who display symptoms of infections, Google said on Tuesday that they would start notifying users who are impacted by DNSChanger malware.

Startup Launches With Goal of Transforming Device Authentication Device authentication startup NetAuthority is pulling the covers off its technology today and unveiling a beta version of its authentication technology.

SAP Acquires Ariba for $4.3 BillionSAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today said it would acquire cloud-based business commerce solutions provider, Ariba, Inc. for approximately $4.3 billion.The German software giant said that its subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire Ariba for $45.00 per share.

A survey of IT pros and executives from Brazil, Germany, U.K., Hong Kong and the United States, respondents paints a bleak picture of security.