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WASHINGTON - The outgoing chief of the National Security Agency told lawmakers Thursday he wants to end the controversy over massive surveillance programs to move forward on key defense and cybersecurity issues.

FireEye has released its 2013 Advanced Threat Report (ATR), which provides a high-level overview of attacks that the company discovered last year. According to FireEye, malware activity has become so pervasive globally that attack servers communicating with malware are now hosted in 206 countries and territories.

Varonis Systems, a provider data governance and protection software for enterprises, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4.8 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $22.00 per share. All of the shares are being offered by Varonis, the company said.

Thomas Seifert Appointed CFO At Symantec

Those boycotting this year’s RSA Conference over the controversy that RSA accepted $10 million from the NSA to ensure a vulnerable encryption algorithm was used by default in RSA's BSAFE toolkit had little affect on the overall success of the conference. 

NEW YORK - The United States on Thursday slapped two extra charges against a British man accused of hacking into thousands of US government computer systems, officials said.

SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2014 - Not all security problems are caused by zero-day vulnerabilities; some are created accidentally.

LONDON - Britain's communications spy agency GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.

NEW YORK - Boeing is launching a self-destructing smartphone to help spies, diplomats and others keep secrets secure.

SAN FRANCISCO - In last year's workforce study from ISC2, 56 percent of those surveyed said their security organization was short-staffed. A year later, figuring out what to do about that remains a challenge, and it is one not far from the minds of some of the attendees at the RSA Conference.

Earlier this month, security researchers from FireEye discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit (CVE-2014-0322) that was being used in a watering hole attack on the US Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website.

Most of the complex fields humans engage in develop their own terminology, which then becomes a problem of translation for the expert. One of the fundamental problems for security at the “C-level” is to translate between security's inner language, which tends to be about risk, and business' inner language, which is about money and opportunity.

Oracle has introduced a new platform designed to help organizations provide secure access to enterprise applications and data from mobile devices.

"We Must Have the Same Abhorrence to Cyber War as We do to Nuclear and Chemical Warfare" - Art Coviello, RSA Chairman

From Security Products to Security Systems, and Now: Security Networks We all know that servers virtualization technologies have matured already and many networks adapt them in order to more efficiently meet today’s business needs.