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The DevOps movement seeks to improve the integration of development and operations teams with the ultimate goal of accelerating the delivery of critical applications. Traditionally, these teams have been at a crossroads because their goals compete: developers want to add more features to their applications while operations teams want to ensure the stability – which means LESS change.

HP Fortify Static Code Analyzer 4.0 Boosts Software Security Assessment Time HP announced the latest version of its static software security assessment tool this week, promising performance up to 10 times faster than pervious versions along with other enhancements.

You’re trying to be a good parent. You’ve explained the importance of treating people with respect online as well as face-to-face and the permanence of online comments, photos and videos. And in the spirit of trust but verify, you may occasionally scroll through your kid’s email or Google+ account, or pick up their phone to glance at recent texts. One would think this behavior it protected by law. Surprisingly, wiretap laws don’t have carve outs for parental snooping.

The New York Times and Twitter are the latest online brands that have fallen victim to service-disrupting cyber attacks. 

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama Tuesday met members of a review board set up to consider the reach of secret US snooping programs exposed by leaker Edward Snowden, sparking a privacy furor.

NEW YORK CITY - The New York Times said its website went down Tuesday after what appeared to be a "malicious external attack." A security researcher said there were indications that the Syrian Electronic Army, which has attacked several media organizations, was the culprit.

A few years ago, distributed denial-of-service attacks by hacktivists were gaining widespread media attention. Since then however, hacktivists have turned to other means to get their points across, from hijacking social media accounts such as Twitter to SQL injection and cross-site scripting.With this in mind, researchers at Dell SecureWorks advise companies to take note of the changing threat landscape as they plan their defense. 

WASHINGTON - Outgoing US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday warned of a "major cyber event" in the future that would have a "serious" impact on American society. In what she described as "a kind of open letter to my successor," Napolitano warned of terrorist threats, major weather events and the need to reinforce US border security.

MobileIron, a provider of mobile security and management solutions, announced the availability of Anyware by MobileIron, a new cloud-based solution for enterprise mobility management (EMM) that was purpose built to manage mobile apps, content, and devices.

Check Point has launched the latest release of its Software Blade Architecture (Check Point R77), which offers a new “ThreatCloud Emulation” Service designed to help organizations detect and stop zero-day and other advanced malware attacks.

Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a new variant of a notorious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) toolkit has been bolstered with new DDoS mitigation defenses.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook said Tuesday it received more than 25,000 government data requests in the first half of 2013, with the largest number from the United States.

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WASHINGTON - Revelations about vast US data collection programs are starting to hit American tech companies, which are ramping up pressure for increased transparency to try to mitigate the damage.

Security researchers are recommending Java users upgrade to the latest version due to a new exploit that has made its way into the Neutrino exploit kit. In a tweet, F-Secure's Timo Hirvonen warned that an exploit for CVE-2013-2463 is circulating a week after proof-of-concept code for an exploit appeared.