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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who received asylum in Russia, is a "strange guy" who condemned himself to a difficult fate. "You know, I sometimes thought about him, he is a strange guy," ex-KGB spy Putin said in an interview with state-run Channel One television.

BERLIN - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed charges in Germany claiming a US Marines intelligence officer spied on him during a Berlin computer conference four years ago, prosecutors said Wednesday, confirming media reports.

At VMworld last month, VMware announced the new NSX network virtualization platform to much fanfare. There was certainly a great deal of excitement at the show, as NSX promises to bring innovation to networking that has not been seen in years. For many, this announcement represents a clash of the titans between VMware and Cisco. But how does network virtualization differ from software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization?

FireEye, the soon-to-go-public provider of threat protection solutions, today announced a new, real-time, continuous protection platform that leverages a combination of people, technology and intelligence to protect customers against advanced cyber attacks.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Tuesday said the next version of Android will be called "KitKat" in keeping with its penchant for giving tasty names to its software for powering mobile devices. "Since these devices make our lives so sweet, each Android version is named after a dessert," the California-based technology titan said in a blog post.

Researchers at EMC's RSA Security Division slapped down the 'Hand of Thief' [HoT] banking Trojan in an updated analysis of the malware's capabilities.

Arbor Networks said Tuesday that it has acquired Packetloop, a Sydney, Australia-based startup focused on security analytics.

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Silent Circle, a startup providing private encrypted communications solutions, today announced that its Silent Text secure messaging and file transfer app is now available for Android.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab revealed that they have discovered a new attack vector for NetTraveler – an attack campaign that has infected hundreds of victims across more than 40 countries.

IBM announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of Trusteer, a Boston-based provider of fraud and advanced threat protection solutions.

WASHINGTON - Pro-Syrian regime hackers posted messages on a US Marine Corps recruiting website on Monday, urging troops to defy orders from President Barack Obama. The hackers showed photos of people in American uniforms holding hand-written signs saying they would not fight for Al-Qaeda in Syria.

WASHINGTON - US spy services conducted 231 "offensive cyberoperations" in 2011, mostly targeting Iran, Russia, China and North Korea, the Washington Post reported Saturday. The revelation is based on a classified intelligence budget provided to the paper by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, as well as on interviews with former US officials.

BRASÍLIA - The American ambassador to Brazil was summoned by authorities Monday over new allegations that the US National Security Agency spied on President Dilma Rousseff, an official said.