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Microsoft Takes Action Against Alleged Malware Creators, Distributors Through Seizure of No-IP.Com Domains

Microsoft announced last week that it would stop sending security notifications via email, but the company has since changed its mind and has promised to resume the process.

There are two ways to start establishing metrics. One is what I think of as the “bottom up” approach and the other being “top down”. For best results you might want to try a bit of both, but depending on your organization and your existing processes it might be easier to go with one or the other.Let's start with the easier one: the “bottom up” approach.

SGP Technologies SA, the Switzerland-based joint venture of Silent Circle and Geeksphone, announced on Monday that Blackphone handsets are now available and t

Sitting in a restaurant waiting to have your name called for a table can require a level of patience a hungry stomach doesn't allow. But what if it were possible to set off the notification pager the restaurant gave you and skip the line?

A Google Drive issue that in certain cases exposed the original URLs of shared documents has been fixed by Google, the company announced on Friday.

Researchers at Symantec released a report today going inside an ongoing attack campaign targeting the energy sector.

WASHINGTON - Cyberattackers, probably state sponsored, have been targeting energy operations in the United States and Europe since 2011 and were capable of causing significant damage, security researchers said Monday.

Many Security Operations Centers (SOCs) find themselves inundated with and overwhelmed by large volumes of false positives, non-actionable alerts, and noise. People often ask me how they can address this situation to improve and strengthen their signal-to-noise ratio.

A new banking malware spotted by Trend Micro intercepts and logs outgoing traffic in an effort to harvest sensitive information from victims.

A new SMS worm dubbed "Selfmite" has been infecting Android devices in a pay-per-install scheme that abuses advertising services, AdaptiveMobile announced last week.

WASHINGTON - The US National Security Agency released its first "transparency report" Friday, as part of an effort to quell the firestorm over reports of its massive data collection efforts. The NSA report said that in 2013, it obtained fewer than 2,000 orders from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

WASHINGTON - The US Congress has passed a law offering whistleblower protections for government intelligence employees, a move cheered Wednesday by supporters of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The Oil and Natural Gas industry this week unveiled a new Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ONG-ISAC) to facilitate the exchange of information, help evaluate risks, and provide up-to-date security guidance to U.S. companies.

A serious security hole that has been plaguing the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm for the past 20 years has been finally patched.