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Microsoft has updated its Certificate Trust List (CTL) to revoke rogue certificates issued following a breach of India's National Informatics Center (NIC).

WASHINGTON - The personal data of thousands of US government workers was not compromised in a recently reported cyber attack, officials said Thursday amid fresh allegations that Chinese hackers accessed computers housing employee information.

Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security have uncovered an issue in Google's Gmail application for iOS they contend could help an attacker performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

BERLIN - Germany on Thursday expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin in an escalating row over alleged spying by the US that has opened the worst diplomatic rift in years between the Western allies.

MALE, Maldives  - The Maldives has said it acted alone to expel a Russian national suspected by the US of being one of the world's most prolific traffickers of stolen credit cards.

Law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity firms have teamed up in an operation aimed at Shylock, a widely distributed piece of malware used by cybercriminals to steal banking credentials.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have published a detailed analysis of a "versatile" Linux DDoS Trojan available online.

In our modern, consumer-driven world, it’s extremely rare to come across someone without a mobile phone. What started as a luxury item that enabled phone calls from outside the home has become mandatory for not only voice, but other daily functions and operations like calendars, reminders, music, pictures, apps and more.

China-based threat actors are using sophisticated malware installed on handheld scanners to target shipping and logistics organizations from all over the world.

Private communications solutions provider Silent Circle now allows customers to make encrypted voice calls in a total of 79 countries, the company announced on Thursday.

TUNIS - Hackers briefly disrupted the online voter registration process for Tunisia's parliamentary and presidential polls later this year, the electoral commission said on Thursday.

LONDON  - Britain is rushing through emergency laws to ensure the police and security services can keep accessing people's Internet and mobile phone data, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Thursday.

The notorious file-encrypting CryptoLocker ransomware has not been active since the latest takedown

Longest Running ICS Cyber Security Conference Opens Call for Presentations for 2014 Event in Atlanta, Georgia

MANILA  - Forty-two Taiwanese and two Chinese suspects have been arrested in the Philippines over a sophisticated Internet scam targeting compatriots back home, police said Thursday.