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New Features Niagara Framework 3.7 include Enhanced Security and Built-in Mobile Support Today, Tridium, the Honeywell subsidiary that makes the Niagara Framework, pushed a significant update to its flagship software product.

TDL4, also known as TDSS in some circles, is a Root Kit that targets the MBR (Master Boot Record) and is nearly impossible to remove. At one point, it was responsible for a botnet with more than 4 million hosts, earning the title of indestructible. Now, researchers at Damballa have discovered a new iteration of TDSS, which uses a new command and control (C&C) communication method that is helping it push a new click-fraud initiative.

Journalists in Beijing are being sent malicious email attachments, which would enable a backdoor into their systems. This latest round of attacks on reporters marks the third such incident, and as usual, the government denies all speculation that it may be behind the attacks.

In an effort to get the attention of the university and the media, a group going by the name of NullCrew has published a list of some 4,000 names and a hand full of passwords, said to have been taken from the University of Cambridge’s Press portal. In response, the university has insisted that there has been no breach.

The ongoing investigation into the Flame malware has traced the development of the Flame platform back in 2006.

The Internet is a virtual environment within the physical properties of the infrastructure that enables its existence. It is tied to geography and there are physical linkages to entities such as IP addresses or domain names. However, the logical topology of the networks that own the information space can be quite different.

Update: Microsoft Offers Guidance for Internet Explorer Zero-Day

Damballa, an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that helps detect cyber threats, said today that it has closed $15 million in new funding to help propel growth.The company says the fresh capital will serve as growth funding to help accelerate sales and distribution through channels to meet the demand for its solutions.

Mobile security firm TrustGo Mobile recently released a report that examined the Android threat landscape across 175 Android markets and 1.7 million Android apps.

KUALA LUMPUR - (AFP) - Google has begun barring access in Malaysia to an anti-Islamic film that has sparked fury across the Muslim world after the country's Internet regulator lodged an official complaint. The low-budget movie, entitled "Innocence of Muslims", has angered followers of Islam for its mocking of the Prophet Mohammed, and for portraying Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.

MANILA - Philippine President Benigno Aquino has signed into law a bill to combat cybercrime, his spokeswoman said Saturday, in a bid to stamp down on everything from forgery to child pornography. The bill will be a boost to law-enforcers who have previously complained of difficulty charging people who use the Internet to commit crimes as there were no legal codes that penalize their acts.

STOCKHOLM - The co-founder of The Pirate Bay filesharing website was on Friday detained in Sweden, days after his deportation from Cambodia, officials said. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, faces a one-year prison sentence for promoting copyright infringement in his home country.

Stolen Laptop Containing Unencrypted Sensitive Data Prompts Feinstein Institute to Contact Affected Research Participants

SAN FRANCISCO - Internet rights champions on Friday were fearful that free speech online may be among the victims of violence spurred by an anti-Islam video posted to YouTube. A decision by YouTube parent Google to deny access to the video in Libya and Egypt even though the film's hateful message isn't aimed at a particular person was seen by some as a compassionate step onto a slippery slope.

WASHINGTON - The White House said Friday it had contacted video sharing website YouTube to ask for a review of an anti-Muslim movie that sparked riots and attacks on US diplomatic posts in the Arab World. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said that officials "reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use."