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Following the arrest of three alleged "Anonymous" members by Spanish authorities on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency has reported that police have detained 32 individuals allegedly linked to the hacktivist group.The Anatolia news agency said today that the suspects were taken into custody after conducting raids in a dozen cities for suspected ties to Anonymous.The group recently targeted Web sites of the country's telecommunications watchdog, the prime minister's office and parliament as a protest to Turkey's plans to introduce Internet...

Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants, Inc. (SCMLC), a California company that represents medical providers in the recovery of billing from workers’ compensation insurance carriers, announced on Saturday that data containing the names and social security numbers of approximately 300,000 individuals who have applied for California workers’ compensation benefits had been exposed to unauthorized access.

With tax credits being dished out for all types of programs, ranging from hybrid vehicles and solar energy to home buying and charitable donations, AGV Technologies CEO JR Smith has another idea in mind: Tax incentives to those using security software protect themselves online.

Years back, when viruses threatened our infrastructure, the industry responded and changed the battlefield. As the threat landscape continues to evolve so must our defense strategies.

Today, IPv6 World Day, is the widely-anticipated 24 hour period that many large organizations including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, Verizon and hundreds of other organizations, will use to distribute content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight” to prepare their services for IPv6.

It’s certainly justified for an organization to worry about theft, loss or legal noncompliance as they put data in the public cloud. The cloud is a fast-moving target that continues to evolve so it’s fair to ask such questions as: At what moment will the security and controls be enough? and If we get locked in now, will we be locked out of future progress?

Solera Networks, a provider of network forensics solutions, today released Solera OS 5.0, a major update to its network forensics platform.Solera OS 5.0 helps IT security teams see everything happening on their networks in real-time, helping to recognize threats, and understand exactly what’s needed to defend against future attacks.

Varonis Systems, a provider of data governance software, this week released the latest version of its DatAdvantage for Exchange, bringing increased visibility and control over mailboxes and public folders to Microsoft Exchange administrators.With Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange, administrators have increased visibility over built-in Microsoft Exchange journaling and diagnostics which only captures a limited amount of data.

The risks are real, and growing more complex by the month. That doesn't mean you're powerless to keep your infrastructure and data secure.

Silver Tail Systems, Inc., a provider of online fraud and abuse detection and prevention solutions, today announced it has completed a Series B funding round of approximately $20M, led by Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

In a pre-release Announcement, Oracle said that its June Critical Patch Update (CPU), which will be released on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, will contain 17 new security fixes for security vulnerabilities in Oracle Java SE.Security vulnerabilities addressed by this Critical Patch Update affect the following products and components:

Adometry (formerly Click Forensics), a company that helps customers monitor online ad campaigns, including identifying click fraud, today said its Malware Lab has discovered a new highly sophisticated advertising fraud scheme targeting online video, display and search ads.The attack, called “ad hijacking,” uses similar malware and infection delivery methods to create a network of computers aimed at committing advertising fraud through different kinds of advertisements and channels.

The Cloud — While Great — Doesn't Absolve Companies from taking Fundamental Precautions to Safeguard their Systems

Fairfax, Virgina based Cyveillance today launched a solution designed to identify and protect against targeted social engineering attacks and prevent enterprise employees from exposing valuable intellectual property and sensitive information as a result of such attacks.

At the Cloud Computing Expo taking place this week in New York City, Core Security Technologies launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) based security testing solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. The service, dubbed Core CloudInspect™ is an automated security testing solution that delivers on-demand intelligence and helps identify exploitable vulnerabilities in systems and web applications while verifying the security of AWS cloud instances.