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WASHINGTON - Microsoft said Friday it received more than 37,000 government requests for information in the first half of 2013 -- excluding any national security requests. In only its second report on the matter, the US tech giant's figures appeared to be on pace with 2012, when it got 75,378 requests.

Vulnerability management software company Rapid7 has launched an ambitious community project to scan the public Internet, organize the results and share the data with the IT security industry.

CloudPassage, a San Francisco, California-based provider of tools to help companies secure their cloud infrastructure, this week launched Halo Enterprise, an offering purpose-built to protect heterogeneous cloud infrastructure environments at scale.

PARIS - France's data protection watchdog said Friday it would take action against US giant Google for failing to comply with national privacy guidelines.

WASHINGTON  - Some National Security Agency employees have illegally eavesdropped on the phone calls of their boyfriends, girlfriends and spouses over the past decade, the US spy service admitted.

WASHINGTON - The US Congress launched its effort to reform surveillance law Thursday in the wake of leaker Edward Snowden's revelation of the vast scope of the government's digital dragnet. President Barack Obama insists the electronic espionage exposed by Snowden was legal, but the furore surrounding the leaks convinced many lawmakers of the need for change.

Costin Raiu of Kaspersky Lab's global research and analysis team joins the podcast and talks to Ryan Naraine about the global implications of the

It is no secret that small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) have very different ways of using IT when compared with large enterprises. Virtualization, public cloud, and mobile are expanding the gap, but in surprising ways. Many folks in IT have the conceit that enterprises lead the way by investing in new, cutting-edge technology. That technology then trickles-down to SMBs.

Microsoft on Thursday rolled out the option for customers to enable multi-factor authentication its Windows Azure cloud service. Designed to bring increased access security and convenience for IT and end users, the new multi-Factor authentication option adds an additional layer of security for users signing in to the cloud service.

Cybercrime is a business, and in the case of the SSNDOB service, business is booming. According to a seven-month investigation by security reporter Brian Krebs, an identity theft service known as SSNDOB [SSNDOB.MS] has compromised computers at some of the largest consumer and business data aggregators in the United States.

The (ISC)2 security professional association released a new survey showing that C-level executives consider application vulnerabilities and mobile devices as being the biggest threats to security.

Kaspersky Lab has uncovered details on what they believe is a small yet sophisticated and determined group of attackers targeting several industrial and high tech organizations in South Korea and Japan.

As the first layer of defense in your network, it is important to take a step back and review the design of your perimeter security.

Cisco released its semiannual IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret program later deemed "disreputable," declassified documents revealed Wednesday.