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Ever since the invention of the lock, someone (somewhere) has tried to defeat it, often going to extremely creative lengths to do so. Such is the case of Ray – a security researcher and law enforcement consultant from Germany– who used a 3D printer to generate copies of handcuff keys that are normally restricted to law enforcement; the Bonowi and Chubb.

CipherCloud, a provider of cloud encryption technologies, has launched a cloud encryption gateway for Office 365 that transparently encrypts all email, calendar, and contact data stored in Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online and third-party Hosted Exchange services.

Kaspersky Lab and Seculert revealed the presence today of a new cyber-espionage weapon known targeting users in the Middle East. 

Corero Network Security added reputation scanning and IP address blocking to its line of anti-distributed denial of service appliances.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in collaboration with the CERT Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), is launching a new education and certificate program designed for information security executives that will emphasize “strategic cybersecurity management”.

StrikeForce Technologies, TradeHarbor Partner on Three-Factor Authentication Using Voice Verification TechnologyStrikeForce Technologies, a provider of our-of-band authentication and security solutions, will combine voice verification software with its out-of-band authentication platform to create "three-factor" verification for customers increasingly worried about being compromised.

The benefits of using full disk encryption far outweigh the costs of deploying the product, which is more than just the cost of purchasing the software, according to a new study.

Google has expanded its use of address space layout randomization (ASLR) in Android 4.1, AKA Jelly Bean, in a bid to help thwart exploits.

Meraki, a provider of networking and security solutions, today announced that it has added wireless intrusion detection and prevention technology to its MR-series line of wireless access points.

Researchers at malware intelligence firm FireEye are reporting that Dutch authorities have pulled the plug on two secondary servers used by the Grum botnet. The removal of the servers shines light on how quickly some law enforcement agencies work, given that proof of their existence is just over a week old.

A Seattle man was sentenced on Friday to 95 months for a crime spree that was made for TV. Joshua Allen Witt, 35, pled guilty to four counts of fraud and one count of identity theft, stemming from a crime spree that lasted 30 months and involved more than 50 businesses and $3 million in stolen cash.

Skype has said they are aware of, and will patch, an odd bug that created a privacy issue by sending instant messages to a completely different party. The bug itself is buried somewhere within the massive amounts of client code, and is only triggered during a crash.The issue, according to a notice from Skype’s Leonas Sendrauskas issued on Monday, only happens when a user's Skype client crashes during an IM session. When this happens, some users may have the last...

Norman ASA has updated its Malware Analyzer G2 platform to enhance its ability to fight malware. The Malware Analyzer G2 platform is designed to help analysts inspect malware effectively. In version 3, Norman has included multiple IntelliVM modules to enable multiple pieces of malware to be inspected in parallel as well as the ability to analyze almost any Windows application or file. The product delivers IntelliVM plugins in Python scripts for development and extension of each analysis, according to the...

Cisco today said that it has acquired Virtuata, a small, privately held startup focused on securing virtual machine level information in data centers and cloud environments.