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In a blog post examining cases from 2012, Verizon Business’ Andrew Valentine presented a tale of a critical infrastructure firm in the U.S. who called them into investigate suspicious VPN connections to China. As it turns out, this was no complex hack, just a lazy developer – or a smart one depending on how you view things.

Zettaset, a Mountain View, California-based provider of Big Data management and security solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $10 million Series B round of venture funding. The new cash will be used to expand research and development and sales and marketing in order meet increasing demand from enterprise customers, the company said.

On Tuesday, AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, announced the version 4.1 release of their Unified Security Management platform, which looks to resolve the challenges associated with typical SIEM deployments including cost, complexity, and implementation.

Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that the security of critical facilities remains the topmost priority for the global oil and gas industry. Accordingly, these markets are increasing the amount spent on security offerings, including those offer integrated and flexible solutions with rounded protection.

SEOUL - South Korean police on Wednesday said North Korea was behind a cyber-attack that paralysed operations at a major conservative newspaper last year. Police accused the North of hacking the news website and database of the JoongAng Ilbo and sister English paper the Korea JoongAng Daily last June, saying the ministry of post and telecommunications might have been involved.

Oracle addressed 86 flaws across 10 product groups in its quarterly Critical Patch Update. Some of the high-risk vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow attackers to take over an underlying Windows server.

Zaxby's Franchising, the restaurant chain best known for high calorie meals like fried chicken and Texas toast, is the latest company to have computers associated with its point-of-sale (POS) systems to be compromised by malware.

Researchers from EMC’s RSA Security division have identified a new phishing technique, which targets a very specific group of victims in targeted attacks.

Like a bad horror movie, in the world of malware, dead doesn't always mean dead.

Adobe on Tuesday released a hotfix to address four vulnerabilities affecting ColdFusion running on Windows, Mac OS and UNIX platforms.

It’s easy to feel uncertainty about where to start to properly cover all the bases when it comes to securing your infrastructure. Evolving security threats are demanding that protective solutions develop just as rapidly – or faster. It’s not enough to stick to the same generic security measures you’ve always assumed were working, and hope for the best. Hackers are becoming smarter and scrappier, so you have to beat them in both departments too.

Software security firm Metaforic on Tuesday announced added support for applications running on BlackBerry 10 to its software protection portfolio.

I am an optimist by nature, which often makes me a minority amongst many of my colleagues in the security sector. Despite my optimism, I live in fear of a coming Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) disaster.

On Monday, Kaspersky Lab uncovered details of a complex cyber espionage campaign dubbed 'Operation Red October' that has been targeting specific groups throughout the world for over five years.

Network security vendor Fortinet on Monday announced the introduction of a new set of network security appliances and secure switching platforms.