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FireEye, the recently gone public provider of threat protection solutions, unveiled a new cloud-based platform designed to address mobile threats.

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency cybersnooping. US government attorneys argue that the Supreme Court does not have the jurisdiction to take the case, filed in July by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

TRUSTe, a global data privacy management (DPM) company, today announced an enhancement to its technology platform - TRUSTed Apps Enterprise Edition – and a partnership with RiskIQ, a leading provider of enterprise security solutions beyond the firewall.

CounterTack, a Watham, Mass-based endpoint security startup that provides real-time, cyber threat detection and forensics to the enterprise, announced on Wednesday that it has closed a $12 million Series B round of funding.

JOHANNESBURG  - South African banks have lost millions of dollars this year in the biggest ever payment card fraud to hit the continent's wealthiest economy, the financial transactions body said Wednesday. A syndicate of fraudsters believed to be based in Europe hacked into the server of point-of-sale systems of retail shops, restaurants and fast-food eateries.

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Mocana, a provider of the mobile application and embedded security solutions, said that it has removed a key generation algorithm from its NanoCrypto embedded security engine, after it was reported that the algorithm could be compromised by the NSA.

Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) which addresses 127 vulnerabilities across many products, including 51 vulnerabilities in Java.

WASHINGTON - A US press freedom group announced Tuesday it would be offering news organizations access to an open-source whistleblower submission system dubbed "SecureDrop." The Freedom of the Press Foundation said it has taken charge of what was originally known as the DeadDrop project, developed by the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

Attackers are increasingly dodging the address space layout randomization [ASLR] mechanisms used to thwart buffer overflow attacks.

Researchers at Symantec say a sophisticated backdoor Trojan known as Egobot is targeting confidential information from South Korean companies as well as corporation doing business with South Korea.

Hackers looking to steal sensitive data, such as intellectual property, deal data or PII, know exactly where to find it: in the databases, file servers, and applications that comprise an organization’s data center. Therefore the ultimate and unchanging goal of hackers is to get into the datacenter. While the goal remains constant, the means hackers use to get their hands on data keeps evolving.

BRASILIA - Brazil said Monday it will activate a secure email system next month to protect government communications from spying by the United States and other countries.