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SafeNet has released the latest version of its secure app development technology to help organizations protect their software from counterfeiting and misuse.

Mocana, a San Francisco-based company that focuses on mobile and smart device security solutions, unveiled new capabilities and security features to its security solution for protecting mobile apps from data leaks and other threats.

Identity and information security solutions firm Entrust, on Tuesday announced updates to its Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential offering.

ForgeRock, a San Francisco, California-based open source identity and access management (IAM) solutions provider, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $15 million through a Series B round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $22 million.

Scaling a company or even just a critical application within a company can be as scary as it is exciting. For starters, often you really don’t know when the hockey stick type growth will occur. Even the largest companies can’t always predict when demand will take off. Take a healthcare SaaS provider, for example.

WASHINGTON - Backers of a cybersecurity bill which stalled in Congress last year offered changes Monday in an effort to ease concerns of privacy and civil liberties activists.

WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-6 that had long been in the public domain, billing it as a victory for transparency.

Security researchers have recently uncovered a number of vulnerabilities in popular wireless routers.

Network security firm Sourcefire on Monday announced that it has appointed John Becker as its new Chief Executive Officer, taking over for Martin Roesch who has served as interim Chief Executive Officer since June 2012 after John Burris took a medical leave of absence to undergo a series of treatments for colon cancer.

Renault Partners with AVG Technologies to Secure its New Automotive App Store

BadB, a man with deep ties to the carding community, notorious for his connections to CarderPlanet before authorities shut it down in 2004, was sentenced to 88 months in prison last week for trafficking in stolen credit cards.

A new report from McAfee outlines the growing risks in the sales and commerce industry, due in part to the mix of legacy and newer Point of Sale (POS) systems, in addition to secondary market hardware. Overall, McAfee’s point is that businesses need to focus on more than just PCI DSS compliance.

There is a shift going on in the security business. It’s been a slow-moving wave for a while now – a shift from reactive to proactive. In the long view, you can see that the pendulum has swung back and forth a few times.

Veracode, known for their application security testing offerings, has released their annual report on the state of software security, which focuses on software vulnerability trends and predictions.

JERUSALEM - A mass cyber attack by hacker groups targeting Israel which began Saturday continued on Monday, but the damage was negligible, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said. "As of noon on Monday, the state of alert continues and the efforts and activity to prevent the cyber attacks that began on Saturday night are ongoing," the agency said in a statement.