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Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications and media company, has made a strategic investment in phone-based authentication and fraud detection solutions provider TeleSign, the company announced on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency's vast data collection program targeting foreign nationals is a largely legal, valuable tool in fighting terrorism, a watchdog panel said Tuesday.

Despite the headlines and repeated warnings, a recent survey suggests businesses still need to learn security lessons the hard way.

TAIPEI - Taiwan tech giant Hon Hai said Wednesday it has pulled out of a deal to buy 4G equipment from Huawei after the government warned that the Chinese company posed a national security threat. Taiwan raised those concerns in March after Hon Hai announced the $178 million deal, saying telecom equipment purchased from Huawei could be used for cyber espionage.

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Researchers from Sucuri have identified a remote file upload vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin that has been downloaded more than 1.7 million times. The security hole has been patched by the developers.

Barracuda Networks announced the immediate availability of Barracuda Firewall version 6.5, the latest release of its next-generation firewall designed for the mid-market. According to Barracuda, the new version packages enterprise-grade next-generation firewall technology, including advanced application control, with a simple, customizable user interface.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro has been hit with a class action lawsuit tied to the recent data breach.

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency has been authorized to intercept information "concerning" all but four countries worldwide, top-secret documents say, according to The Washington Post. "The United States has long had broad no-spying arrangements with those four countries - Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand," the Post reported Monday.

I always thought the marketing campaign for AAA was genius; sooner or later you’ll breakdown and join AAA. A few wise individuals will hand over the cash when they proactively decide to curb their risk, and the rest will find themselves trying to sign up while stranded on the side of the highway. We’re seeing a similar storyline play out in the world of security.

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft on Tuesday said it is scrambling Outlook email messages in transit to thwart spying by governments or others. Toughened encryption at Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive online "cloud" data storage service came less than a month after the technology titan got low marks in a Google ranking of such defenses against online snooping.

What do financial institutions, ePayment services, social networking sites and email services have in common? The answer is they make up the majority of the types of brands targeted by phishing kits.

Unified security management solutions provider AlienVault has updated its Open Threat Exchange (OTX), the company's open, crowdsourced threat intelligence sharing system.

Iraq's civil war now has a cyber-component, with researchers encountering increased cyber-espionage tools and custom malware.

Updates containing fixes for security vulnerabilities were made available by Apple on Monday for iOS, Safari, OS X Mavericks and Apple TV.