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One-hundred and eleven Mexican websites, some of them related to Mexico’s mining industry – others related to Mexico’s Senate and Ministry of Interior, Alabama’s state website, the UN, and even the CIA, were targeted this weekend by various supporters of Anonymous. The reasons for the attacks are as diverse as those who carried them out.

In recent SEC filings, VeriSign revealed they were repeatedly hacked during 2010. Though the company did not divulge what type of data was breached, the report raised serious concerns – particularly since VeriSign’s claim to fame was their position as a leader in the certificate issuance field.

CANCUN, MEXICO -- Kaspersky Lab Cyber Conference 2012 – Kaspersky Lab, the Russian security software company co-founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky revealed some of its 2011 financial details at its Cyber Conference that took place this week in Cancun, Mexico.

From my perspective, there are two Internets. The one common folks use - you know, for surfing, stalking and finding who played first base for the NY Yankees in 1989 (Don Mattingly, of course).

Microsoft is prepping nine security bulletins to patch 21 vulnerabilities next week as part of Patch Tuesday.This month’s update features fixes for Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and .NET/Silverlight. Four of the bulletins are rated ‘Critical.’ In particular, these bulletins affect Windows, the .NET Framework, Silverlight and Internet Explorer. The remaining bulletins are all rated ‘Important.’

Protests against Apple and Foxconn due to furor over reports about working conditions have gone digital.

Trustwave captured the public’s attention over the weekend, when its policy regarding subordinate root certificates led to the discovery that one of its customers used them to monitor their employee’s SSL communications. Reacting to the public’s ire, Trustwave explained the incident on its company blog, and promised to end the practice moving forward.

The Cloud is Very Different, but the Approach to Adoption Needs to go Back to Basics. Buyer Beware? No, buyer be Smart and Educated.

It is not surprising that customer records would be the main target for attackers. But a database of financial records from a major bank is not their most common target – instead it’s the food and beverage industry that has proved most appetizing.In its 2012 Global Security Report, Trustwave revealed that for the second year in a row, the food and beverage industry comprised nearly 44 percent of the data breach investigations in 2011. Retail businesses were the second largest...

Symantec confirmed with SecurityWeek today, that following claims from Anonymous that additional Symantec product source code would be released, the claims are true, and the said files are in fact the legitimate source code from its pcAnywhere product.

Clickjacking, a term coined by Jeremiah Grossman in 2008, is quickly becoming an extremely dangerous threat. Recent news coverage of enormous clickjacking schemes are bringing this type of threat to the forefront. The term clickjacking, for those not familiar, refers to a type of attack that’s designed to get individuals to unknowingly click on nefarious links or buttons. From there, hackers are able to garner confidential information, get users to take an action online they normally wouldn’t, or compromise their...

The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may not be many people’s favorite place, but in South Carolina, it has apparently become a magnet for hackers.

Symantec has updated its portfolio of backup products with new releases emphasizing speed and simplicity.In Symantec NetBackup 7.5, the company has added NetBackup Accelerator to speed backups. Other new features include NetBackup Replication Director, which integrates NetApp Snapshots with backup, and NetBackup Search, which allows the search and recovery of backup data.

On Monday, details emerged of what appeared to be an email exchange between a Symantec employee and a hacker using the alias “YamaTough” who claimed he was in possession of Symantec source code back in January, showing that the hacker may have attempted to extort the company, and that Symantec had been negotiating a deal to pay the hacker in exchange for the code not to be released. The exchange, however, was not between Symantec and the hacker, but between...