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RSA 2012: NSA Pilots 100 Android Phones

Smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system are secure enough to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field, according to the National...

RSA 2012: LulzSec As a CloudFlare Customer

The CloudFlare team was surprised when cyber-pranksters LulzSecurity signed up to take advantage of its services last year, Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare said...

Microsoft Mistakenly Claims Google Home Page Infected With Blackhole

Microsoft quickly updated its security tools after users reported seeing warnings that Google's home page was infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.Microsoft's Forefront corporate...

Mozilla Closes Security Flaw in Firefox 10

Less than two weeks after releasing Firefox version 10, Mozilla has updated its popular Web browser to close a security flaw.A critical security vulnerability...

Romney Most-Mentioned Politician in Spam Messages

Even spammers are following the United States presidential elections and have their favorites among the Republican candidates.Bitdefender researchers analyzed 8 million pieces of spam...

Attackers Breached Foxconn, Dumped Data For Fun

A group of hackers appear to have breached and extracted information from Foxconn's network. Foxconn Electronics has not confirmed the breach.Attackers breached Foxconn Electronics,...

Facebook Still Not Deleting Photos From CDN: Ars Technica

Almost three years after Facebook promised to look into why photos deleted by users were still accessible online, the photos are still available, reported...

Apache, Apple, PHP Release Security Updates

The past few days has been filled with security patches and updates that may have slipped past IT administrators.Apache released its HTTP Server 2.2.22...

Megaupload Users Gain Reprieve, EFF Working to Retrieve Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is working on a way to separate legitimate user data from illegal content that had been stored on Megaupload servers...

Romanian Police Arrest TinKode

Romanian police have arrested a man they believe is TinKode, who broke into Department of Defense Websites and other government agencies.Razvan Manole Cermaianu, an...