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It’s that time of the year again. Time not only to make resolutions (which I fully plan to keep for at least a whole month), but also some predictions on what the future holds for security. One thing is for certain, the threats that companies face will continue to accelerate.

SEOUL - South Korean regulators Wednesday vowed tougher penalties for financial firms and executives who fail to protect customer data, following the unprecedented theft of information from at least 20 million people.

BEIJING - China's Internet suffered a massive breakdown as traffic was routed to an overseas site linked to the banned religious group Falun Gong -- a fiasco a cyber-monitoring group Wednesday blamed on the country's own censors.

Researchers at intelligence firm IntelCrawler have named a second person who they believe is tied to the malware used in the attacks against Target.

Responding to a security threat is just as important as detecting it – if not more so.

Network security vendor Check Point Software Technologies has released a new Security Gateway Module that doubles the performance of its 61000 Security System designed for data centers and telecommunication companies.

The number sequence "123456" has overtaken "password" as the most common worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says. Releasing its annual Worst Passwords list, SplashData said it was the first time "password" had lost its number-one position, changing places with its numerical rival.

Germany Warns of 16 Million Hacked Email Accounts

Cisco Updates Security Education Portfolio to Address Cybersecurity Talent Gaps and Job Role Changes

New Rules Engine Boosts Defense Capabilities Against DDoS and Sophisticated Layer-7 Application Attacks

“Security is orthogonal to functionality - just because a security product functions properly does not mean it's secure.” - Bruce Schneier

SEOUL - Tens of thousands of South Koreans flooded banks and call centers Tuesday to cancel credit cards following the unprecedented theft of the personal data of at least 20 million people.

Four minutes – that is how long security researcher David Kennedy said it took him to expose a hole that could have allowed him to access information on 70,000 people courtesy of Healthcare.gov.The security of the website has become a political battleground in the fight over Obamacare. But behind the politics, Kennedy told SecurityWeek, are serious security issues caused by a rushed development cycle.

A10 Networks, a company that makes application networking products, has launched a new line of standalone, high performance Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection appliances targeted to service providers and large enterprises.