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Adobe’s Photoshop is a key application within the marketing, advertising, sales, publishing and graphic design markets. Businesses that rely on images to move product use Adobe’s costly flagship product. So when code execution vulnerabilities were discovered in Photoshop 12 (CS5) it’s easy to think that a patch would not only be released, but that it would be free. Those thoughts couldn’t be further from the truth.

Symantec Chief Information Security Officer Patricia Titus shares her perspectives on cybersecurit

Department of Defense Widens of Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity Information Sharing InitiativesThe U.S. Department of Defense, working alongside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced on Friday that they would expand the availability of the cybersecurity information assurance program launched last year.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2011 Internet Crime Report on Thursday, revealing some of the top scams and cybercrime trends for the year.All totaled, the IC3 said it received and processed 314,246 complaints in 2011, averaging out to 26,000 complaints per month. These numbers represent a 3.4 percent increase over the number of complaints received in 2010. The reported dollar loss was $485.3 million.

TrustSphere, a company that provides reputation and messaging intelligence solutions, has released an email security product that leverages a social graph of trusted senders to block spam and reduce the number of messages erroneously sent to junk mail folders, while at the same time helping to defend against targeted attacks.

Web Application Firewalls Aren't the Enemy of the Software Development Lifecycle. Putting a WAF Place Can Help Expedite the SDLC.

After suffering a massive amount of embarrassment over the leak of classified and sensitive diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks - allegedly at the hands of an insider - the Army wants to use keylogging software with additional abilities, to prevent another Cablegate scale data breach.Maj. Gen. Steven Smith, chief of the Army Cyber Directorate, told the Army Times, that they would soon be shopping for software that would be pre-programmed to detect abnormal behavior, as well as examine web searches, downloads,...

They call it OpDefiance (or Operation Defiance), and on Wednesday Anonymous pushed forward in their continual acts of defiance by targeting the website of Russia’s on-again-off-again president, Vladimr Putin.

The world of social media, with its wealth of information and volume of potential victims, has remained a popular stomping ground for cyber criminals. While examining the ten most prevalent threat detections for April, GFI Software discovered that Twitter and Facebook were no longer the main sources of material for enterprising scammers.

International Travelers Warned of Threats via Hotel Connections - “The Malware Hotel—You can check in, but you can't check out!”

Apple Auto-Disables Outdated Versions of Flash Player, Pushes Several Security Fixes in Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Safari UpdateFollowing a recent update to its iOS software that addressed several security issues with Apple’s mobile devices, the Cupertino tech titan pushed another significant software update today, this time for its flagship Mac OS X operating system and Safari Web browser.

Dell today announced that it has completed its acquisition of IT security vendor SonicWALL, adding several components to the company’s security software and services portfolio.In a deal that was announced on March 13 of this year, while the terms were not publicly disclosed, Dell reportedly paid $1.2 billion to acquired SonicWALL.

Adscend Media LLC, a marketing firm connected to several Clickjacking schemes (also known as Likejacking), has agreed to pay attorney fees and stop spamming Facebook. The agreement was announced on Monday by the Washington State Attorney General’s office.Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna sued Adscend earlier this year, after a rash of scams on Facebook led to users being tricked into sharing personal information and signing up for subscription services.

David DeWalt Joins Mandiant as Chairman of the Board of Directors Mandiant, a firm focused on security threat detection and response solutions, has announced that former McAfee President and CEO, David DeWalt, has been named as chairman of Mandiant’s board of directors.

MySpace Settles With FTC After Failing to Live up to Privacy ExpectationsOn Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that MySpace has agreed to settle charges that the social networking portal misrepresented its privacy claims to users.