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SAN FRANCISCO - Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday issued a report clearing itself of wrongdoing in the suicide of an Internet activist who had been under prosecution for plundering academic journal articles from the school.

Smart homes that let residents control alarms, locks and more over the internet are opening doors for crooks with hacker skills, according to computer security specialists. "The smart home trend is growing, and it evolves quickly into a story of security," Trustwave managing consultant Daniel Crowley told AFP.

Jerry Bryant, Senior Security Strategist in the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing group, chats with Ryan Naraine ab

BlackBerry and Mozilla have armed themselves with new bug-hunting tools as part of an effort to collaborate on securing the web. The smartphone maker and open-source software group used the spotlight of the Black Hat 2013 security conference to showcase Peach, an open-source fuzz testing framework.

SYDNEY  - Organised crime is so big globally that were it a country, it would be part of the G20 group of major economies, the Australian government said Tuesday. Releasing the Australian Crime Commission's biennial report on the issue, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said organised crime had boomed and grown more complex with the advent of the Internet.

FORT MEADE - A US military judge convicted Bradley Manning of espionage Tuesday, leaving him facing a lengthy jail term despite clearing him on the most serious charge that he 'aided the enemy.' Colonel Denise Lind found Manning guilty of 20 of 22 counts related to his leaking of a huge trove of secret US diplomatic cables and military logs to the WikiLeaks website.

WatchGuard Technologies has integrated a Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution into its Unified Threat Management (UTM) platform, in an effort to help organizations simplify compliance with regulatory standards.

The security industry is one of the most interesting and exciting fields of technology. The pace in which things move and the sophistication of the work being done is unparalleled. However, there is one drawback that mainly affects the business and marketing side of a security vendor and that is, nobody “really wants” to buy security, they just know it’s necessary.

AVG Technologies, maker of free and premium Internet security software for PCs and mobile devices, today named Gary Kovacs as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director.

Arbor Networks, a provider of network security and management solutions, has released its data on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack trends for the first half of 2013.According to Arbor, the average attack size has jumped 43 percent so far this year, with 46.5 percent of attacks now topping 1Gbps. The average DDoS Attack Size was 2.7Gbps in June, Arbor said.

Bit9 has launched a free tool that scans for executable files (dll, installer, script and other programs) on Windows-based systems to help users detect potentially malicious files and identify areas of risk on their PCs.

WELLINGTON  - The hacktivist collective Anonymous on Tuesday briefly crashed New Zealand Prime Minister John Key's website in protest at plans to allow the country's intelligence agency to spy on local residents.

Researchers at Symantec say one-click fraud scams targeting users on Google Play have added some new steps to their dance with Google Android users.

Microsoft's pre-patch information sharing on vulnerabilities in its software has been expanded to include incident responders dealing with advanced targeted attacks.