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According to separate reports from data security firm Imperva, and FireHost, a cloud hosting company, SQL Injection (SQLi) attacks were the number one attack vector in the first half of 2012.

Enigma Module Offers Full Disk Encryption for USB Storage DrivesEnova Technology, a Taiwan-based provider of encryption solutions, on Monday launched a USB encryption solution designed to provide consumers and enterprises with real-time full disk encryption for just about any USB mass storage class drive.

In the physical world, some metropolitan areas manage growth by creating boundaries. In the online world, growth is also controlled with boundaries. And right now, we’re in the middle of setting the course for how the real estate of the Internet will be labeled and accessed for years to come with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) new gTLD Program.

McAfee announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded a multi-year Enterprise Level Agreement contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could be valued up to $12 million. Under the contract, McAfee says it plans to provide the DHS with a number of of enterprise wide network and system security products, services and support, including expanding the DHS’s continuous monitoring and security capabilities.

WELLINGTON - (AFP) - Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom on Tuesday accused New Zealand police of kicking and punching him when they raided his Auckland mansion earlier this year to arrest him for alleged copyright piracy.Dotcom told the Auckland High Court he tried to surrender peacefully to police during the raid in January, when about 70 armed police cooperating with a major US online piracy probe raided the mansion.

After Senate Republicans smacked down the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 last week, the Obama administration is said to be weighing its options, and could bypass Congress altogether, using executive orders to mandate parts of the failed bill.

SEOUL- (AFP) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it had launched a super-size version of its Galaxy Note smartphone, the latest salvo in its battle with Apple for the multi-billion-dollar handheld market.The Galaxy Note 10.1, which went on sale on Monday in Germany and the United Arab Emirates, is almost twice as wide as its predecessor and nearly the size of a tablet.

Officials in Iran plan to move key ministries and state bodies off the public Internet to protect them from cyber-attacks, according to a report.

Ever wonder how some Twitter accounts seemingly became so popular overnight? According to Barracuda Networks, it is not always due to the person's celebrity or charisma, but instead is tied to a thriving black market for phony social networking accounts.

Apple’s tech support department is taking some heat after their actions led to a journalist losing control of all of the data associated with his iCloud account, which in turn led to the compromise of Gizmodo’s Twitter account over the weekend.

On Friday, Reuters reported that its blogging platform was compromised and used to post false news stories. As it turned out, not only was the publishing platform targeted, but Reuters’ Twitter accounts were as well.

Would you, could you, protect my data? Protect it now, protect it then, please protect it everywhen. Protect my health and banking stuff, though it can be, will be rough.

Friday afternoon, Reuters reported that its blogging platform had been compromised after being the target of a hack, and that false stories had been posted purporting to be written by Reuters journalists.

When Public Relations Departments Do Cybercrime Research A recent article on ProPublica dissected two commonly quoted figures about cybersecurity: $1 Trillion in losses due to cybercrime itself, and $388 billion related to consumer monetary losses and time spent repairing the damage caused by cybercrime. Both figures, according to the article are hyperbole to say the least.