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Major vulnerabilities in a protocol for remotely monitoring and managing servers would allow attackers to hijack the computers to gain control of them, access or erase data, or lock others out.

University researchers have built a program that mimics the way people play the memory game Concentration, opening the possibility of improving computer security by distinguishing human behavior from bots.

HTML Injection is a vulnerability which occurs in web applications that allows users to insert html code via a specific parameter for example or an entry point.

The state of California received some 131 reports of data breaches last year as firms are failing to adopt best practices for data security.

Ubisoft, the French game company that asked Kaspersky Lab to make sure hacking in its upcoming Watch Dogs game looks real, got hacked for real with names, emails and passwords stolen.

FloCon is an open conference providing a forum for operational network analysts, tool developers, researchers, and other parties interested in the analysis of large volumes of traffic to showcase the next generation of flow-based analysis techniques

In the latest revelations of the NSA leaks scandal, new slides have emerged thoroughly explaining the targeting process of the US government top-secret PRISM program deployed to spy on communication data of targets operating abroad.

Are American public servants, civilian or military, who face a minimum of 30 years in prison for revealing U.S. state secrets to the press, “whistleblowers” exercising power in a democratic system or are they “resistors to oppression” at the hands of a military-police dictatorship?

We recently saw some government statistics which unfortunately underline that information security is becoming more and more of a challenge for small businesses.

ANS today announced the addition of new training courses to SANS Network Security 2013, in Las Vegas, NV, September 14-23.