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It’s a bad day for the vulnerability scanning industry: DARPA has announced a new multi-million-dollar competition to build a system that will be able to automatically analyze code, find its weak spots, and patch them against attack.

Commenting on the news that Google has added a DDoS service, Jag Bains CTO of DDoS protection company DOSarrest Internet Security has commented:

In response to the news that convicted computer hackers could be recruited to the UK’s cyber defence force if they pass security vetting, Tripwire have made the following comments

A consumer VPN service called CryptoSeal Privacy has shut down rather than risk government intrusions that could cost the company money in legal fees and threaten user privacy.

About two weeks ago, it was reported that “Paunch”, the author of the Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK), had been arrested by Russian law enforcement. (In addition to his work on BHEK, Paunch is also suspected of working on the Cool Exploit Kit.)

In the office, people still prefer Microsoft Office. Yes, despite threats from rivals that are open source, cheaper, fully cloud-based or more mobile-friendly, Microsoft Office’s desktop suite reigns over the workplace productivity software kingdom.

The Open Virtualization Alliance has joined the Linux Foundation as a collaborative project to deepen its ties with the Linux community.

Gather around the server script kiddies for I have a scary tale of woe. What makes this story all the more scary is that it is true.

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, TEKsystems� Network Services practice surveyed IT and business leaders to gauge how well their organizations are currently addressing information security.

A defibrillator fitted to US vice president Dick Cheney had its wireless functions removed in the factory, in order to ensure hackers – or terrorists – could not kill him by attacking the device.