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DAMASCUS - Syria's ministry of information on Monday denied the sacking of the country's ambassador to Lebanon and said a previous email announcement was a result of hacking, state television reported. "The email account of the ministry was hacked in order to publish inaccurate information" about the reported dismissal of the Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television.

Office of Energy Infrastructure Security Will Address Cyber Attacks Risks and Physical Threats Such as Electromagnetic Pulses

WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has ordered an inquiry into government agents spying "unlawfully" while assisting police in the lead up to the arrest of Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom. Key said Monday he has told the Intelligence and Security department to investigate "the circumstances of unlawful interception of communications of certain individuals by the Government Communications Security Bureau".

TEHRAN - Iran blocked access to Google's popular and relatively secure Gmail service Monday amid first steps by the Islamic republic to establish a walled-off national intranet separate from the worldwide Internet. Access to Google's search page was also restricted to its unsecured version, web users in Iran found. Attempts to access it using the secure HTTPS protocol were also blocked.

Researchers at Symantec have discovered malware that has been written using Google’s Go programming language. Go was introduced by Google in 2009, two years after its initial design, and Symantec’s discovery seems to be the first time a malicious application has been found that was developed using the programming language.

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As promised, Microsoft has patched Internet Explorer against the recently disclosed Zero-Day that made headlines all week. In addition, they patched four other flaws that were privately disclosed, but unlike the main vulnerability, were not being exploited in the wild.

A security researcher from Application Security, Inc. (AppSec) has discovered a flaw in Oracle’s software that would allow an attacker to crack database passwords with basic brute-force attacks. Details of the attack were discussed on Thursday at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina.

The ZeroAccess rootkit used to be a problematic kernel-mode family of malware that was hard to remove; new versions of the malware itself have dropped the kernel-mode aspects. Now it operates entirely in user-mode memory. This shift in development has led Sophos researchers to dig deeper, and they found some interesting things.

New Guidance Provides a Starting Point and Template for Action as Industry and Government Work Together to Secure Industrial Control Systems in the Transportation Sector

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday that a former software engineer working for Chicago-based CME Group pleaded guilty to theft of trade secrets after he stole source code and other proprietary information from the company.

Zeus. Gauss. Stuxnet.

LOS ANGELES  — A 21-year-old man whose alleged Internet rant about killing children alarmed law enforcement authorities, leading them to knock down his door and arrest him, is being described by his own attorney as "just a dumb kid."

BEIJING - Despite several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings, the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese cyberattacks against American companies and the government. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is wrapping up three days of meetings with military and civilian leaders, said he has brought the issue up at every session and come away with little more than agreements to talk again.