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Security firm Trend Micro said late Monday that it has obtained samples of the malware that is assumed to be responsible for infecting systems at the Israeli police department and effectively knocking them offline.

A new report from Trend Micro highlights how network traffic can be used to detect advanced persistent threats (APTs) through the correlation of threat intelligence.

According to The Hill, a blog reporting on Congressional activities, the cybersecurity bill that has had a rocky life in Washington is now likely dead. Both sides of the political spectrum are showing little interest in working out the issues.

On Friday, Mozilla issued another security fix for issues discovered after the release of Firefox 16.0.1, which if exploited, would allow Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) or code execution. The latest release is available now in the update channel and for direct download. Friday’s release marks the third time this month that security issues needed to be addressed. It’s also the 14th critical fix released for version 16.

WASHINGTON - It is expected to be the mother of all cyber diplomatic battles. When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.

WatchGuard Technologies, a Seattle, Washington-based IT security solutions vendor, said early this week that its UTM security appliances will soon be able to configure themselves, thanks to “RapidDeploy”, a new cloud-based configuration utility.

Open Source Library Aims To Help Developers Remediate Common Security Defects in Java Web Applications

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will block mobile phone networks in several cities early Saturday over security fears during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. The decision "based on intelligence reports" has been taken to prevent attacks by Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants on Muslim congregations in several cities including parts of the capital Islamabad, he said Friday.

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OTTAWA - Canada and the United States announced Friday they were launching a joint cybsersecurity plan to protect their digital infrastructure from online threats. The action plan, under the auspices of the US Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada, aims to better protect critical digital infrastructure and improve the response to cyber incidents.

South Carolina Data Breach Exposes 3.6 Million Tax PayersState officials in South Carolina say a devastating cyberattack on the state's Department of Revenue has resulted in the theft of 3.6 million social security numbers and nearly 400,000 credit and debit card numbers.

After enterprise software firm Sybase released patches to address critical vulnerabilities in its relational database management system over the summer, it turned out the security holes had not been completely closed. Months later, the flaws still remain, database security experts said.

Symantec recently published a blog post detailing two new methods being deployed to avoid malware detection and analytics. According to research, criminals are taking a low-cost / low-tech approach and using sleep loops along with basic monitoring to avoid getting caught.

SAN FRANCISCO - A New York man with a shady past was arrested on Friday for using a forged contract with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to lay claim to half of the world's leading online social network. Paul Ceglia, 39, faces a pair of fraud charges that each carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.

Rapid7, the Boston-based security firm behind the popular Metasploit and Nexpose testing frameworks, today announced tha Mike Tuchen has stepped down from his role as CEO and will be replaced by Corey Thomas who will serve as President and CEO of the company.