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Genesco Inc, a specialty retailer of branded footwear and other products, today announced that the computer network that processes its payment card transactions in the United States has been hacked, in what the company is calling a “criminal intrusion.” Genesco operates more than 2,225 footwear and headwear retail stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, principally under the names Journeys, Journeys Kidz, Shi by Journeys, Underground Station, Johnston & Murphy, Hatworld, Lids, Lids Kids, Hat Shack, Hat Zone,...

Another milestone for DNSSEC has been reached, with VeriSign today announcing it has deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .net zone.

This week, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Europe’s Cyber security agency, released a report identifying what it sees as the top security risks and opportunities of smartphone use and gives security advice for businesses, consumers and governments.The Agency considers spyware, poor data cleansing when recycling phones, accidental data leakage, and unauthorized premium-rate phonecalls and SMSs as the top risks.

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” –Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity, 1993

Symantec today announced its predictions for what to expect in 2011 in the security and storage space. Hardly a surprise, the security giant says cloud, virtualization, mobile security and social media will be the hot topics and trends for the year. Here’s what Symantec Predicts for 2011:New Technologies, New Challenges

Tool Enables Instant Decryption of TrueCrypt and BitLocker by Analyzing Hibernation File

Juniper Updates SSL VPN App to Enable Secure iPad Access to Enterprise Networks

VASCO Data Security today launched “DIGIPASS Nano,” its latest mobile security offering which consists of a thin film that users place over the SIM card in their mobile device, turning it into a secure mobile device capable of generating one-time passwords and e-signatures.

A rapid shift in the prevalence of real-time attacks from online banking trojans, such as ZeuS, are now more common than password phishing attacks, according to PhoneFactor, a provider of phone-based multi-factor authentication solutions. Organizations lack understanding about what to do to protect against these threats according to the results of the “state of online banking security” survey released today by PhoneFactor.

Solution Enables Enterprises to Deploy Private Mobile App Stores for the EnterpriseMobileIron, a provider of mobile device management and security solutions, has updated its Virtual Smartphone Platform (VSP) with several new features including the ability to let businesses create private “Enterprise App Stores” and deliver in-house iPhone and iPad apps to their employees without having to post them publicly.

According to a recent study, over 50 percent of companies in the U.K. and U.S. have an Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Disclosure strategy in place, but most haven’t revisited policies to address new communication methods such as social networking (30 percent in the U.K. and 21 percent in the U.S.) and new storage technologies such as cloud computing (28 percent in the U.K. and 16 percent in the U.S.).

The day after Twin Towers fell, all kinds of security measures changed and new ones were implemented overnight. Is there a Web identity 911 equivalent wake-up call coming—a single event that will suddenly jolt us into enforced standards overnight?

Cyber-activist group launches DDoS attacks on PayPal for ceasing to process donations to WikiLeaks

Consumerization and Securing Mobile Data Concerns IT Security Administrators 

Core Security Technologies, a Boston based provider of IT security testing and measurement solutions, today introduced the latest version of its automated penetration testing solution, CORE IMPACT Pro version 11.