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THE HAGUE - A Dutchman arrested in Spain last month in connection with an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, has been extradited to the Netherlands where he appeared before a judge on Wednesday, Dutch prosecutors said.

Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle, researchers for Cylance, an Irvine, California-based security firm, discovered that Google was using an outdated version of the Niagara framework building management system.

Organizations underestimate how cyber-attackers can take advantage of privileged accounts for malicious purposes, according to a new survey.

Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 29, of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the charges against him, stemming from his participation in a 2011 scheme to steal payment card data from point of sale (POS) systems.

Syria was cut off from the Internet on Tuesday, and remains offline as of Wednesday morning, according to several US Internet firms and the State Department.

Cyber-criminals are increasingly setting up shop in Latin American and the Caribbean to take advantage of low security awareness among users and ineffective law enforcement, according to a recent report from Trend Micro.

While Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks bring the promise of relieving traffic jams for mobile operators, they also entail new security risks.

THE HAGUE - Dutch government websites were paralyzed for several hours overnight after a mass cyber attack which targeted several ministerial sites, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

BANGKOK - Hackers infiltrated the website of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's office on Wednesday, posting offensive comments in the latest attack on her character.

Several media sites, including two Washington, DC-based radio stations, have been compromised to infect unsuspecting visitors' systems with fake antivirus software. 

Smaller open source projects tend to be more secure than proprietary applications, but the opposite is the case for software with more than a million lines of code, according to a new report from Coverity.

Solving the challenges around passwords has received increasing attention, with some in the industry just recently forming the Fast Identity Online Alliance.

New Smart Grid Solutions from Cisco Will Help Modernize and Secure National Critical Infrastructure Cisco has expanded its "smart grid" portfolio with specialized networking equipment to help power-generation utilities modernize and secure the electrical grid.

Having a safe doesn't do much good if it is left open. Yet the safe where organizations house their data is sometimes left just as unsecure.

There is an old saying in the business world, that if you want to get ahead, don’t bring your boss problems, bring him or her solutions. The message being that you were hired based on your experience and your ability to get the job done, not to create more problems. The same can be said when it comes to investing in security solutions. When budget requests come before the C-suite for new technology, they want to be assured that a...