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MADRID - Spain's national police has built up an army of over half a million followers on Twitter, using them to help swoop on fugitives and get tip-offs on drug dealers in an open dialogue that has helped bring the force closer to the people.

Trend Micro has launched a new security as a service solution that uses automated and expert analysis to help protect web applications.

Better Security Intelligence and Attacker Identification can add an Important New Layer to Protect the Data Center.Perimeter firewalling has you covered like a muumuu on Memaw. While we thank our lucky stars in many ways for Memaw’s muumuu, we still feel like Memaw could do better for herself. And so can you when it comes to data center security.

Content Raven, a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company that helps customers control and secure content and intellectual property distributed externally, today announced that it secured $2 million in a Series A round, led by Mass Ventures.

Washington - A fierce debate about Internet privacy and the limits of US executive power erupted on Tuesday in a victory for the young intelligence technician at the center of a global leak storm.

The Zeus/ZBOT Trojan is no newcomer to the malware scene, but that hardly means it does not have any new tricks up its sleeve.

Microsoft is urging businesses to prioritize a patch for Microsoft Office in order to thwart a spate of ongoing, targeted attacks that have appeared in the wild.

WASHINGTON - A coalition of Internet and civil liberties groups launched a campaign Tuesday protesting the huge US online surveillance program revealed in the past week. Joining the effort were the Mozilla Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace USA, the World Wide Web Foundation and more than 80 other organizations or companies.

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) remain concerned about the security, privacy, and reliability of cloud applications, but they quickly see the benefits once they make the actual jump, according to a Microsoft survey.

An article reporting on the National Security Agency's surveillance program on a Washington news site was compromised and directed users to a malicious site, Invincea warned on Monday.

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and NSA through his job as a contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, has been terminated, according to a statement released by Booz Allen Hamilton on Tuesday.

A spate of attacks targeting users in Vietnam and India are infecting users with a backdoor designed to steal massive amounts of information. According to researchers with Rapid7, the targeted attacks are using a malicious Microsoft Word document that exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office to compromise computers with malware known as KeyBoy.

OTTAWA - Canada has also been electronically eavesdropping on Canadians and others, scouring global telephone records and Internet data for patterns of suspicious activity, a newspaper said Monday.

Big Data means different things to different industries and organizations. Today, Big Data not only describes the large and complex data sets that organizations are dealing with, it is also used to describe capabilities found in technologies that produce, process, analyze and protect data.

Google has increased the amount of award money in its bounty program for researchers who discover and report vulnerabilities in Google products.