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Liberty Reserve laundered $6 billion through illegal transactions

An indictment has been unsealed on Tuesday charging Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services, and seven of …

Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty

Jeremy Hammond (aka “Anarchaos”), the Anonymous hacker that was charged last year with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting …

Addonics releases CipherUSB family of hardware encryption solutions

Addonics Technologies announced a family of USB hardware encryption solutions that protect data stored on hard drives, removable drives, flash media, optical media or in the …

McAfee unveils Complete Endpoint Protection suites

McAfee introduced two new suites: McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Enterprise, and McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Business. The suites include McAfee …

Backup large data with Big Cloud

Sterling Data Storage released its largest data backup solution yet — the Big Cloud. It was designed for companies needing to securely store large amounts without sacrificing …

Can mobile malware be activated via sensors?

Can mobile malware be activated via sensors available on current mobile devices, and receive commands through out-of-band communication methods? If you ask a group of …

How secure is quantum cryptography?

Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and …

U.S. weapons systems designs reportedly stolen by hackers

Hackers – more than likely Chinese – have stolen designs for two dozen U.S. weapons systems during a series of raids, a previously undisclosed section of a report …

Brazilian govt sites found serving malware

Cyber crooks targeting Brazilian users have a well-documented predilection for banking Trojans, but every now and then they opt for other types of malware. Trend Micro …

DNS anomaly detection: Defend against sophisticated malware

Not so long ago, the standard way of looking for a malware infection was to simply monitor web traffic. By looking, for example, for HTTP requests to google.com/webhp – …

Liberty Reserve founder arrested, site and service inaccessible

When the website of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based payment processor popular with cyber criminals, became inaccessible late last week, speculation about what caused were …

Week in review: Scanner that identifies malware strains, Twitter offers 2FA

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance Randall Gamby is …

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