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MANILA - Hackers angered over a new Philippine anti-cybercrime law attacked several government websites on Thursday, posting messages denouncing the new legislation.

The security vulnerability that could fully wipe Samsung Galaxy S III device appears to not be limited to just Samsung devices after all, but affects most smartphones running older versions of Android.

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eIQnetworks, a Massachusetts-based provider of security and compliance solutions, has launched a new SIEM solution that the company says can be installed and fully deployed in one hour.

A company that supplies remote administration and monitoring tools to the energy sector has warned customers it was a victim of sophisticated advanced persistent threat.

For the past few years, the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been at the center of a classic IT debate pitting two common foes – productivity and security - against one another.

On Tuesday, SourceForge and the phpMyAdmin project reported that one of their mirrors was serving a compromised version of the MySQL management application. The investigation is ongoing SourceForge said, but it is believed that the nvumber of potential victims were small.

The FTC has reached a settlement with seven rent-to-own companies, and the developer of a tracking tool, which the agency said was used to violate consumer privacy. The problem stems from the tool itself, which used a “Detective Mode” to track computers that were stolen or behind on payments.

Researchers from Security Explorations, the group who pointed out that the recently released patch to address a previous vulnerability in Java was easily bypassed, said they have discovered yet another flaw.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) stored usernames and passwords for its users in a plain-text file on a publically accessible server, a Romanian computer scientist has claimed.

Network security provider Arbor Networks has teamed with Alcatel-Lucent to establish a new proof-of-concept laboratory in Singapore for communications service providers to conduct testing of technologies to fight distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Security researchers have found a way to use an Android device to game certain types of cards used to pay for rides on transit systems.

DUBAI - An Islamist group on Tuesday said it will carry out new cyber attacks on US banking targets, according to SITE Intelligence Group, following similar attacks last week in response to an anti-Islam film.

A sweeping digital privacy protections measure that would have required the government to get a warrant for data stored in the cloud has been delayed until after the November elections.

Some Twitter users are getting hit with a malware attack that is spreading through direct messages. The messages take a variety of forms, noted Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley, including one where the recipient is told something about them has been posted on Facebook. In one iteration, the message says: "your in this" and includes a link to Facebook.