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Threats, Security Operations, and Scale

TALLINN - NATO on Tuesday launched its largest-ever cyber exercises to practice warding off massive, simultaneous attacks on member states and their partners. Based at the alliance's cyber defence centre in EU member Estonia, the exercises will last three days and include participants in over 30 European states.

The National Security Agency infected more than 50,000 networks across the globe with malware as part of a massive surveillance effort.

Application security company Security Innovation released its NTRU public key cryptography system to the open source community for free in a bid to address challenges facing popular public-key crypto systems today.

BEIJING - A Chinese thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner, state media said Monday. The pickpocket is believed to have taken the Apple handset from Zou Bin when they shared a taxi, the Xinhua news agency said.

Have you seen the spat between Wyndham Hotels and the Federal Trade Commission?  Wyndham already suffered a painful and public breach, dating back to 2008.  The FTC filed a lawsuit over a year ago, saying that Wyndham had not done enough to prevent it. 

Twitter on Friday announced  that it has added Perfect Forward Secrecy, which adds an extra layer of security to Web encryption to protect user data against prying eyes. 

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Lenovo network storage devices that allows attackers to gain unauthorized remote read-only access to network-attached storage (NAS) shares.

Just like house keys, passwords can give thieves all they need to get their foot in the door.

As the latest addition to its line of of high-performance firewalls designed for enterprise and data center environments, network security firm, Fortinet, this week launched the FortiGate-1500D firewall. According to the company, the FortiGate-1500 can achieve up to 80 Gbps of firewall and 10 Gbps of intrusion prevention and application control performance.

Zettaset, a provider of solutions to manage and secure Big Data, announced that its flagship Hadoop cluster management platform, Zettaset Orchestrator, now has the capability to encrypt data-at-rest.

Balancing security priorities with business flexibility and agility is a tough challenge. But it’s a challenge every executive management team faces as it strives to drive business growth, achieve competitive advantage and maximize operational efficiency.

STOCKHOLM -  Sweden said Thursday it will hand over one of the world's best-known computer hackers, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, to neighboring Denmark where he is wanted for questioning on alleged hacking charges.

Pindrop Security, a startup focused on combating phone-based fraud for banks and enterprise call centers, has released a new report outlining some of the risks phone fraud poses to financial institution call centers.

SYDNEY - Australian police and central bank websites fell victim to cyber attacks Thursday with an Indonesian hacker claiming responsibility, reportedly demanding that Canberra apologize in an intensifying row over spying.