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A federal judge in California sentenced two men behind a massive identity theft scheme to 25 years in prison Wednesday.

Symantec on Thursday announced Norton Zone, a new consumer-focused secure file sharing service designed to enable users to safely access, sync and share photos, videos and documents from any Windows, Mac, Android or iOS device. As part of the service, all files are scanned for viruses and malware before being shared.

A Network Freeze Doesn’t Mean There Aren’t Risks On Your Network That Need To Be Addressed... The holidays are officially upon us (and have been apparently since the minute after Halloween was over). While consumers are racing to get all of their shopping done and businesses spend inordinate amounts of time and money trying to keep their stores busy, many IT operations teams are either preparing or in the midst of putting their network on ice.

Piwik, an open source alternative to Google Analytics, announced on Tuesday that they had suffered a security breach, and the attacker inserted a backdoor into their software, which was available for download for a few hours. Piwik is used by 460,000 websites, and has been downloaded well over a million times. The platform is a self hosted, open source alternative to Google Analytics that’s been around since 2007.

White House Releases National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs

Entrust introduced new services today with the goal of helping its customers solve common challenges associated with managing digital certificates. The additional services are part of the company's Entrust Discovery service, and are meant to ensure organizations can avoid application outages, enforce compliance and manage multi-source certificate environments.

The Shylock financial malware has added new evasive capabilities, Trusteer researchers have found.

Earlier this month, pro-Palestine supporters of Anonymous launched “OpIsrael”, a virtual offensive against Israel in protest of Israel’s strikes inside of Gaza. The campaign has been linked to nearly a thousand website defacements, and numerous DDoS attacks, forcing Israel to fight a two front war. 

Security testing firm NSS Labs has released the latest results from its web browser security comparative series, which this time evaluated the effectiveness of phishing protection from the most popular Web browsers – Apple’s Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Mozilla’s Firefox.

On Tuesday, for unknown reasons at the time, Google suddenly started re-verifying people to previous levels of access. As it turns out, the reason was that Google's Webmaster Tools platform was impacted by a glitch that gave access to users who previously had access to the services, but had since had that access revoked. Only a small percentage of accounts were said to have seen the random re-verifications.

While attackers can break into networks using complex techniques, the reality is that most data breaches occur when attackers manage to get their hands on login credentials to administrator and other super-user accounts.

Early Wednesday, unknown adversaries diverted traffic intended for the Romanian sites of Google and Yahoo to a defaced Web page.

Printers manufactured by Samsung, and sold via Dell or direct channels, are vulnerable to attack thanks to a hard-coded administrator account in the device’s firmware. The company says that devices made after Oct. 31 are not vulnerable, but it will take time before a patch tool is released.

Last week, South Carolina’s (SC) Governor presented the results of the investigation over the exposure of the personal data of nearly 4 million individual filers and 700,000 businesses

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reportedly is taking steps to secure its information after data was stolen from one of its former servers and posted online. According to the IAEA, the stolen data includes email addresses for some experts working with the agency. The data was posted online by a group going by the name Parastoo, which in Farsi translates to "swallow."