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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev President Rivka Carmi this week announced the establishment of a national cyber complex in Beer-Sheva, called CyberSpark, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev said Tuesday.

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new malware that has the ability to infect systems running Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, with the goal of launching DDoS attacks.

NEW YORK - Companies need to start thinking of themselves as stewards of consumer data and be proactive about data protection, a panel of experts said this week at a town hall event in honor of Data Privacy Day.

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CloudLock, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based firm that helps companies secure data stored in the cloud, today announced it has raised $16.5 million in a Series C funding round.

LatAm Summit Lashes Out at US SpyingHAVANA - Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday railed against US spying as he opened a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders set up by Venezuela's late anti-US leader Hugo Chavez.

The author of the infamous SpyEye Trojan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Britain Says Head of Eavesdropping Agency to Step Down LONDON - Britain announced Tuesday that the head of GCHQ, the secret eavesdropping agency that has come under scrutiny following leaks by former US analyst Edward Snowden is to stand down.

OTTAWA - Canada's interim privacy commissioner on Tuesday urged lawmakers to crack down on government spies who trawl without cause on social media websites to gather people's personal data.

After experiencing an attack last year that exposed customer accounts and database instances at cloud-based database service MongoHQ, the company on Tuesday said that it has added new security features, in

Researchers from AVAST are warning users to beware of modified and malicious versions of the popular open source FileZilla FTP client that captures login details and sends them to a server hosted in Germany.

A definite sign of the times in which we live is that as the world gears up for a major global event in a couple weeks in Sochi, Russia, the number-one topic of conversation is security and not the Olympic Games themselves.

WASHINGTON - The United States agreed to give technology firms the ability to publish broad details of how their customer data has been targeted by US spy agencies, officials said Monday.

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency and its British counterpart are tapping into smart phone applications to scoop up personal data, the New York Times reported Monday.

Security researchers at Ben Gurion University have uncovered what they say is a network vulnerability on Google Android devices that could be used to allow malware to bypass VPN.