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FireEye, a provider of advanced threat protection solutions for enterprises, on Thursday announced that it has raised $50 million in venture funding, a massive amount that brings the total amount raised by the company to over $100 million.

New Java Vulnerability Being "Massively Exploited" in the WildAnother Java zero-day security flaw is actively being targeted in the wild, and exploits are already in use across some of the most popular crimeware toolkits.If you haven't disabled Java yet, there is no better time than now.

GRC Platform Supports Hadoop and MongoDB Big Data Frameworks to Enhance Risk and Compliance Management

The first PC viruses appeared more than 25 years ago. Little did we realize that this was just the beginning of what would become a series of threat waves.

Attackers increasingly targeted the country's critical infrastructure such as power grids, water systems, and nuclear facilities in 2012, according to a recent Homeland Security report.

The gang behind the notorious Blackhole exploit kit is branching out into new markets with a new crimeware kit and a $100,000 budget.

University researchers developed a way to encode hidden messages using the silent portions of a Skype call.

Los Alamos National Lab, one of two labs in the nation responsible for nuclear research, has replaced networking equipment out of concerns over security. The concerns stem from the fact that the networking switches were created by China-based HC3 Technologies.

Ruby on Rails maintainers have released another critical update to the popular Web application framework to address some serious issues.

According to a report from the New York Times, Iran is to blame for a wave of DDoS attacks against several U.S. banks this summer. This nation-state attack was previously thought to be the work of a small band of hackers, but government officials and security researchers are now voicing their doubts.

After pleading guilty last September, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday that Cezar Butu, of Ploiesti, Romania, has been sentenced to 21-months in prison for his admitted role in a Web-based scam targeting payment card data.

As a privacy attorney and General Counsel of security companies, I have had the privilege of listening to the humorous ways in which colleagues convince themselves they have more privacy in the workplace than they actually do.

BRUSSELS - In a bid to seize the initiative from increasingly sophisticated online criminals, the European Union unveiled a new cybercrime center Wednesday. Criminal gangs are using new technology to steal identities, empty bank accounts or profit from child sex abuse, and only a centralised system can combat them, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said.

Mobile security and device management provider AirWatch has launched a standalone platform to handle mobile devices and apps in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments.

LONDON - The British military's dependence on information technology means it could be "fatally compromised" by a cyber-attack but the government seems unprepared for such an event, lawmakers warned Wednesday.