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NSA director and commander of US Cyber Command General Keith Alexander has announced that the intelligence agency is planning to drastically scale down the number of its …

Patches for the two recently discovered Android “Master Key” bugs are still to be pushed out by many mobile carriers and device manufacturers. In the meantime, …

If, for whatever reason, you wish to hack into someone else’s Facebook account, searching online for ways to do it will likely bring you grief. Take for example a …

Texas-based secure webmail service Lavabit has unexpectedly closed up shop on Thursday, and the explanation given by owner and operator Ladar Levison is as follows: I have …

Netwrix Corporation announced Netwrix Auditor 5.0, a configuration auditing solution for security, compliance and operations across the entire IT infrastructure. It provides …

The August 2013 Patch Tuesday advance notification includes a slightly higher volume of fixes than last month, but only 3 of 8 are critical, which is down from July’s 6 …

When it comes to the infamous Reveton ransomware, cyber crooks are forever coming up with additional ways to bilk money from users: pairing it up with banking Trojans, playing …

Graph Search, the semantic search engine whose Beta version Facebook introduced in March 2013, has been made available for everybody who uses the US English language. The …

Windows users are by far the most targeted ones by malware-wielding criminals, but that doesn’t mean that OS X and Linux users should feel impervious. In fact, RSA …

When choosing to import his Safari bookmarks and settings into Google’s Chrome browser, software developer Elliot Kember discovered that although it seemed like he could …

Modern systems have a multitude of configuration elements that, ideally, meet the IT business requirements of the organization. The danger of having poorly configured systems …

The need to ensure compliance with regulations should no longer be the primary consideration of CIOs when planning IT risk and security measures. Gartner said compliance is an …