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If you’re an administrator or security team member for your organization’s network, you’ve likely heard about the Crisis malware at some point in your risk management research. On Friday, Symantec published a new white paper on the malware, with a rounded overview into its history and details of its capabilities.

DAMASCUS - Internet and telephone services resumed in Damascus on Saturday after a three-day blackout, an AFP reporter and state news agency SANA said, as a watchdog said they were up in most parts of Syria.

[Update: According to UPI, officials in Belize have denied reports that McAfee has been captured]

WASHINGTON - Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, wanted by authorities in Belize, has come out of hiding to insist he did not kill his neighbor or hire someone to do the crime.

TEHRAN - Tehran's cyber police chief has been sacked for negligence in events leading to the death in custody of an Iranian blogger, Iran's police said on its website on Saturday. Colonel Saeed Shokrian "was removed from his post due to negligence and lax supervision over personnel under his command," police.ir reported, quoting a decree by Iran's police chief, Esmaeel Ahmadi Moghadam.

For years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has had a thorny issue to contend with – the accuracy and use of WHOIS data to identify domain registrants.

Many Organizations Are Vulnerable to Encrypted Attacks, And the Probability Of Being Be a Victim of Such An Attack Is Increasing...

DAMASCUS - Fierce clashes raged throughout the night near Damascus airport, with a shell slamming into a bus carrying airport workers, as Internet and phone links in Syria remained cut Friday for a second straight day.

In the latest round of testing and certifications performed by AV-Test.org, Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) failed to meet the requirements for dealing with zero-day malware. The failed protection rating made MSE the only anti-Virus product that didn’t earn AV-Test approval.

NEW DELHI - Hackers attacked and defaced the website of India's IT minister on Friday amid a growing campaign against a law governing online comments which has been condemned by free-speech advocates. An amendment to India's Information Technology Act in 2009, which was championed by minister Kapil Sibal, makes it illegal to make "grossly offensive" comments online, a measure seen by critics as a draconian limit on free speech.

On Thursday, the state-run Syrian Telecommunications Establishment flipped the virtual switch and killed Internet access within the nation. Shortly after that act, Anonymous flipped their collective lids and started targeting the Internet properties of the Syrian government and pro-government supporters in retaliation.

Advanced Data Processing, Inc. (ADPI), a firm that manages billing for ambulance companies, said late Thursday that a company employee had accessed sensitive data on individuals who had received emergency response or other ambulance services and was feeding it to a fraud ring alleged to be filing fraudulent federal tax returns with the IRS.

Western Connecticut State University on Thursday said that a database vulnerability on a system housing sensitive personal information resulted in approximately 235,000 individuals being exposed. The vulnerable server maintained records collected by the university over a 13-year period, and was said to be vulnerable from April 2009 to September 2012.

According to a report from SecurityMetrics, a data security and compliance firm, 70 percent of merchants that accept credit and debit cards are storing unencrypted payment card data. The study finds that the majority of businesses are leaving low-hanging-fruit for criminals, by storing payment data on easily compromised systems in the clear, making data theft much easier.

Sumo Logic, a log management and analytics solutions company, this week announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C funding round, bringing the company's total venture capital funding to-date to $50.5 million.