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SEOUL - South Korea's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that senior members of its cyber warfare unit had been questioned over their possible involvement in a widening scandal over state interference in elections. Areas of the unit's headquarters were searched and several of its commanders questioned, a ministry official said.

VIENNA - The UN atomic agency said Tuesday that some of its computers were infected by malicious software, in its second embarrassing IT slip-up over the past year. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which holds highly sensitive information on its member states' nuclear facilities, said however that none of its data was compromised.

RSA’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Eddie Schwartz has left the security division of storage giant EMC and taken on the role of VP of Security at Verizon Enterprise Solutions.

WASHINGTON - America's ultra-secret National Security Agency reluctantly finds itself in the headlines amid a wave of disclosures from ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has exposed the service's vast electronic spying operation.

Two weeks ago, it was reported that police in Russia arrested the reputed author of the Blackhole Exploit kit, a man who went by the hacker alias 'Paunch.' In the aftermath, the number of spam campaigns using Blackhole to distribute malware fell off, and in the past two weeks have still not recovered.

Arbor Networks, a provider of DDoS and threat protection solutions, announced on Monday that they have collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization that maps global distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

A malware campaign targeting online banking customers in Eastern Europe uses a mix of the old and the new as it swipes data from unsuspecting victims.

PARIS - France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from the United States after new spying allegations leaked by former US security contractor Edward Snowden.

WASHINGTON - The director of America's eavesdropping National Security Agency plans to retire next year but his departure is not connected to leaks from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, officials said Thursday.

DOHA - Qatari authorities have restored several government websites attacked by hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, who support President Bashar al-Assad's regime, local media reported Sunday. Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Technology (ictQatar) said in a statement carried by local media that it has "recovered all government websites hacked on Saturday."

WASHINGTON - US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he did not bring any secret documents with him to Russia when he fled there, ensuring Moscow had no access to the files.

The idea of viewing security from the endpoint out is part of having defense-in-depth, or layered security. This has a couple of pretty-straightforward advantages. First, external attackers must compromise multiple layers to get at protected systems and data.

Hackers have swiped a database full of customer information from PR Newswire in an attack that may be related to the group behind the attacks on Adobe Systems and other companies.

Mobile security company Skycure announced a mobile intrusion detection and prevention solution aimed at protecting iPhones and iPads by monitoring network traffic behavior and fixing suspicious activity.

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