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WASHINGTON, June 20, 2014 (AFP) - The US House of Representatives approved late Thursday a bill that would restrict the electronic surveillance powers of the National Security Agency (NSA). The margin was wide, 293 to 123, for the bill attached to the defense budget for 2015, which begins October 1.

Growing up, one of my father’s favorite sayings was “luck favors the prepared.”

Businesses that handle payment card data have to become compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 3.0 (PCI DSS 3.0) by December 31, 2014, yet many appear to be unprepared for the challenge.

LinkedIn said that a majority of its users are not affected by the SSL issue reported by security company Zimperium. According to Zimperium, an attacker could launch a man-in-the-middle [MITM] attack leveraging a SSL stripping technique to steal a user's credentials and gain control of a victim's account due to the way LinkedIn implements SSL.

The breach at P.F. Chang's China Bistro may have stretched on longer than some thought. According to reports, the breach may go back as far as September 2013, roughly nine months before it was first discovered. 

The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old Tennessee man reputed to be a member of the notorious NullCrew hacking group.Timothy Justin French was arrested recently by the FBI at his home in Morristown, Tennessee, on charges of conspiring to launch attacks against two universities and three companies since last summer.

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Tech giant IBM announced on Wednesday that it has officially opened a new Security Operations Center (SOC) located in Heredia, Costa Rica.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, as the saying goes. In the world of cyber-crime however, it may be more accurate to say imitation is about achieving the highest form of effectiveness.

Until We Know What is Occurring on Devices, We Cannot Determine if Our Controls are Effective at Managing Risk...

The World Cup kicked off last Thursday, marking the beginning point of more than a month of futbol hysteria. The World Cup is the most watched event on the planet and the runner up isn’t even close.

Onapsis, a provider of security solutions to protect SAP and Oracle platforms, announced that it has raised $9.58 million in funding led by .406 Ventures with Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors also participating.

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security are warning that a Linux vulnerability exploited by a tool to root Google Android phones could also be used by attackers.