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New Enhancements Help Identify Suspicious Mobile Apps and Block Malicious CommunicationsKindsight, an Alcatel-Lucent company, has expanded its mobile security offering with anti-theft features and new network-based security scanning.

BeyondTrust, a Carlsbad, California-based provider identity management and security intelligence solutions, today announced that it has acquired Blackbird Group, a provider Windows system management software, for an undisclosed sum.

Exploit Hub, an exploit marketplace orginally launched by NSS Labs in 2010, but spun off by the testing firm in March of this year, said on Tuesday that they were compromised by a quasi-rival group going by the name Inj3ct0r Team.

Good news for IT job seekers – in a survey of 1,400 chief information officers from around the country, 17 percent said they plan to expand their IT departments in the first quarter of 2013.

Networking solutions provider Blue Coat Systems announced on Tuesday that it has released updates to its PacketShaper appliances. The updates offer more visibility into Web applications and operations, as well as group and user-level policy creation and enforcement.

Researchers from FireEye shared details on Monday of an attack that appears to be after targets in Russia, and seems to be originating from an attacker in Korea.

Adobe has released new security bulletins for ColdFusion and Flash Player as part of its scheduled update.

Researchers at EMC's RSA security division say evidence that the Citadel Trojan is slowly being pulled from underground markets continues to pile up.

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The Miami Family Medical Center in Queensland Australia has been victimize by Ransomware, which has forced them to take extreme measures in order to access important medical records. According to ABC News, reporting locally, the medical center stores their records on a server, which was compromised with a variant of malware commonly known as Ransomware.

Among the everyday news of security breaches, there is one recent incident that brought to light a certain vulnerability we often take for granted because it’s considered “standard” –encrypted data.

In a public address from hacking crew Team GhostShell, the group said that they are taking the rest of the year off, but not before dumping 1.6 million records – taken from various government, and private sector organizations.

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab on Monday released its annual security bulletin, a report that reveals statistics on malware and cyber-threats detected by its Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout the year. Kaspersky’s 2012 summary proved to be another report validating the explosive growth in malware targeting mobile devices running on Google’s Android platform, and the increase in threats targeting Mac OS users.