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Combining legacy SCADA systems that have their own weaknesses with Internet technologies is a dangerous mix for protecting systems that provide energy, water and other basic needs, Black Hat presenter says.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Las Vegas is the setting this week for two of the most popular annual security events. First comes Black Hat for the professional crowd, followed by the more antic Defcon gathering.

IOActive's Barnaby Jack reveals at Black Hat how he found ways to remotely log into ATMs without a password and force them to spit out cash.

The company will begin sharing vulnerability information early with security vendors just as Microsoft does. Plus: a new toolkit from Redmond.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

SecureWorks uncovers bizarre criminal operation that uses digital techniques to aid in old-school check counterfeiting.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Verizon's annual data breach report combines data from the U.S. Secret Service and covers more than 143 million compromised records.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Firefox 4 beta 2 continues Mozilla's push to release new features and under-the-hood improvements to beta testers faster.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

Acquisition price for mobile security provider SMobile is about $70 million in cash, companies say.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout say many security issues with Android and iPhone apps result from innocent coding mistakes in third-party software.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Researcher to give talk on ATM security holes that was canceled a year ago, but talk on Chinese cyber army is axed after Taiwan complains.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Seven holes are fixed, six researchers who found them are paid bounties, and Google urges all software makers to fix serious problems within 60 days.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

A new version of Webroot Internet Security Complete has backup, PC synchronization and password management along with the usual security features

Originally posted at Safe and Secure

Best known for Spy Sweeper, Webroot introduces the new Internet Security Complete 2011 in an attempt to offer comprehensive security that includes password management, file synchronization, and identity protection along with modern threat protection.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

In a Monday briefing, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says it's "alarming" to find so many "top-secret documents" from the U.S. military in Afghanistan publicly available, thanks to the document-sharing site.

Originally posted at Privacy Inc.

Google is now offering up its Google Apps suite to federal, state, and local governments. Features remain the same, but what Google is doing with data and security makes things interesting.

Originally posted at Web Crawler

The Citi Mobile iPhone app was inadvertently saving account data in a hidden file on iPhones and computers that were synced, bank says.

Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Document-leaking group releases tens of thousands of classified files to newspapers including the U.K. Guardian, which calls it a "devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan."

Antimalware efforts might be paying off, as Microsoft reports that the browser's SmartScreen Filter has stopped 1 billion malware downloads since its launch.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

Web hosting service Burst.net, which terminated Blogetery's service following an FBI terrorist investigation, says it will return data to the blogging platform.

Originally posted at Media Maverick

U.S. district judge says China's leading Internet search company has a "plausible" case related to a hacking that disabled the company's site for hours.

Originally posted at News - Digital Media