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ICS-CERT published an advisory last week centered on a hard-coded password vulnerability that impacts some 300 medical devices – including implanted devices such as pacemakers or defibrillators.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden remained defiant in an online question and answer session hosted today by the Guardian newspaper.

In a bid to enhance its end Cloud Services portfolio and security offerings, Japanese IT and telecommunications services giant NTT has agreed to acquire Solutionary, an Omaha, Nebraska-based Managed Security Services Provider for an undisclosed cash sum.

Modern cyberattacks and APTs (advanced persistent threats) have quickly become a top priority for both security practitioners and C-level executives, and for good reason.

WASHINGTON - US tech giant Apple revealed on Monday it received between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests in six months from US authorities, days after Facebook and Microsoft released similar information.

BEIJING - China's official army newspaper Sunday branded the United States Internet surveillance program exposed by former spy Edward Snowden as "frightening", and accused the US of being a "habitual offender" when it comes to network monitoring.

MANILA - A Philippine hacker has posted online what he claimed to be the president's personal mobile telephone numbers, with Benigno Aquino's spokesman Saturday denouncing the act as "cyber vandalism".

WASHINGTON - Facebook revealed Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal.

WASHINGTON - Microsoft has said it received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security requests from US authorities in the second half of last year related to 31,000 to 32,000 customer accounts.

EiQ Networks, a provider of security, risk and compliance solutions, this week announced ThreatVue, a security monitoring solution that automates the analysis of essential security controls and provides key security intelligence for organizations.

SAN FRANCISCO – Sometimes, a targeted attack against a business starts at home. In the corporate world, security comes from layered defenses that sometime prove to be too much for an attacker. However, when it comes to systems at home, such protections are rare, if they exist at all.

Traditionally, security teams have an on-again, off-again relationship with infrastructure and operations teams. I think most folks who have worked with, or within, IT groups agree that the relationship can sometimes be strained. However, projects around the virtualization of infrastructure, especially virtualized desktops (VDI), and infrastructure-as-a-service (public cloud) present special challenges for IT.

JOHANNESBURG  - South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Friday said its website had been hacked by Zimbabwe activists claiming ties to the global "hacktivist" group Anonymous. "Someone calling themselves Anonymous and claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people of Zimbabwe has flooded the website of our organisation," the ANC said in a statement.

Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2019, 90 percent of organizations will have personal data on IT systems they don't own or control – a change that necessitates the creation of policies that keep data under the organization's thumb.

Trend Micro researchers have found evidence of the Rarstone remote access tool (RAT) in targeted attacks against various organizations in the telecommunications and energy industries in Asia.