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Iranian official Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of the communications and IT of the NIOOC (Nat’l Iranian Offshore Oil Company), said that Israel launched a cyber attack against his company, and was soundly defeated before it could cause any damage.

While There are Numerous Options on How to Protect Mobile Payments, Attaining Impermeable Protection is Non-Negotiable.

Professional, coordinated attackers with a plan, breached a server maintained by Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) and walked off with nearly 300,000 records, and have used the information to commit at least 50 acts of identity theft, the school’s president said.

The Irish version of Google and Yahoo briefly went offline on Tuesday when unknown perpetrators managed to change the sites' Domain Name Server records, according to the IE Domain Registry. A "security incident" on Tuesday resulted in the DNS nameserver records for two "high profile .ie domains" to be changed, IEDR said in a statement on its site Wednesday. There was apparently an "unauthorized access" to a registrar's account which resulted in the change, according to the statement.

Less than two years after being aquired by Intel, McAfee said that it will be laying off a "small percentage" of the now-security division's roughly 7,100 employees, according to a report that was confirmed with SecurityWeek on Thursday.

HyTrust 3.0 Integrates ‘Secondary Approval’ Feature To Safeguard Against Operational Downtime and Internal Security Breaches.At the RSA Europe Conference in London this week, HyTrust, a provider of policy management and access control solutions for virtual environments, released version 3.0 of its HyTrust Appliance.

If you and your co-workers are looking forward to Friday, you are not alone – phishers are looking forward to it as well. In an analysis of phishing schemes between July and August, researchers at Websense found that 38.5 percent of the phishing attacks they detected were conducted on Friday, with Monday (30 percent) and Sunday (10.9 percent) coming in at second and third, respectively. 

SHANGHAI - Chinese telecom firm ZTE, accused by American lawmakers of doing business with Iran and posing a security threat, says US network giant Cisco Systems has ended a cooperation deal with it.

Successful conduct of military operations requires a unit’s clear understanding of the battle space it controls and its “area of operations”. This includes not only the terrain of the battlefield but also the capabilities, motives, and determination of the enemy they face.

OTTAWA - Canada said Tuesday it had invoked a "national security exception" that could exclude China's Huawei Technologies from a role in helping build its new super secure government network.

Symantec is unifying the bewildering array of mobile device, application, and security related tools under one umbrella in its new Mobile Management Suite.

WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court let stand Tuesday an immunity law on wiretapping viewed by government as a useful anti-terror tool but criticized by rights activists as a flagrant abuse of executive power. The top US court declined to review a December 2011 appeals court decision that rejected a lawsuit against AT&T for helping the National Security Agency monitor its customers' phone calls and Internet traffic.

Boston-based Rapid7 has acquired Seattle-based Mobilisafe to add mobile security offerings to its security product portfolio.

Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word in today's Patch Tuesday.

The growth of software activation key generators is linked to the spread of malware, according to findings from Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence report. In volume 13 of the report, which was released Monday, Microsoft reported that Win32/Keygen was the most commonly reported threat family in the first half of 2012. Win32/Keygen, which represents software activation key generators, was detected nearly five million times.