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In August, word spread that after the Senate rejected the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 the Obama administration was considering an executive order that would deal with some of the provisions in the failed bill. Last week, a draft of such an order was leaked to the Web.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An Ohio man will plead guilty to sending anonymous YouTube threats in which he claimed to have hacked into the University of Pittsburgh's computer system on the heels of a series of unrelated disruptive bomb threats, his attorney told The Associated Press. Brett Hudson will admit he's guilty "and he's going to get on with his life," defense attorney Warner Mariani said.

Cigital announced the release of the fourth version of the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) study, gathering data from 51 security initiatives at corporations around the world.

On Monday, Google announced that IMAP/SMTP and XMPP would be getting a security boost in the form of OAuth 2.0. The transition comes as the company depreciates older standards (OAuth 1.0a) on the GMail and Google Talk services. Ryan Troll, a member of Google’s Application Security Team, said in a blog post that the changes are part of a long term plan to support additional mechanisms to protect user information.

HONG KONG - Chinese telecom giant Huawei is perplexed at its treatment in the West, with the United States fearful it is a Trojan horse for cyber warfare even as Europe eagerly courts its business. The contrast was stark last week when the private company's elusive founder and chief executive officer, Ren Zhengfei, appeared alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron at the signing of a $2 billion investment deal in London.

FireHost, a Dallas based cloud hosting provider that has made security the focus of its offerings, today announced that it has raised $10 Million in a Series C round of funding. The announcement comes just about a year to the day when the company announced that it raised $10 Million in a Series B funding round last September. 

Putting Business Continuity Plans in Place Now, Means You Won’t Have to Scramble When It’s Time to Trigger Your Disaster Recovery Plan...

In response to reports of a Zero-Day vulnerability targeting all versions of Internet Explorer, with the single exception of Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft has confirmed the issue and offered guidance to customers.

Two Romanian Nationals Plead Guilty to Hacking into and Stealing Payment Card Data from Hundreds of Point of Sale Systems

A new survey by Symantec has uncovered many organizations are struggling with increasingly complexity in the data center.

New Features Niagara Framework 3.7 include Enhanced Security and Built-in Mobile Support Today, Tridium, the Honeywell subsidiary that makes the Niagara Framework, pushed a significant update to its flagship software product.

TDL4, also known as TDSS in some circles, is a Root Kit that targets the MBR (Master Boot Record) and is nearly impossible to remove. At one point, it was responsible for a botnet with more than 4 million hosts, earning the title of indestructible. Now, researchers at Damballa have discovered a new iteration of TDSS, which uses a new command and control (C&C) communication method that is helping it push a new click-fraud initiative.

Journalists in Beijing are being sent malicious email attachments, which would enable a backdoor into their systems. This latest round of attacks on reporters marks the third such incident, and as usual, the government denies all speculation that it may be behind the attacks.

In an effort to get the attention of the university and the media, a group going by the name of NullCrew has published a list of some 4,000 names and a hand full of passwords, said to have been taken from the University of Cambridge’s Press portal. In response, the university has insisted that there has been no breach.

The ongoing investigation into the Flame malware has traced the development of the Flame platform back in 2006.