A US magistrate judge in New York ruled Monday that police overstepped the law when they called on Apple to unlock the iPhone of a suspected drug dealer.
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Apple Ready for Encryption ‘Conversation’: Lawyer
Apple wants a "conversation" to help settle a standoff with US law enforcement over accessing an encrypted iPhone, according to testimony prepared for a congressional hearing.
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Dell Unveils Solution to Detect Evasive Malware
Dell Unveils SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service
SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 – Enterprise technology giant Dell announced the launch of SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service, a new offering aimed at delivering better protection against advanced cyber threats.
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Pentagon Boosts Cyber War Against IS Group
The Pentagon is expanding its cyberattacks against the Islamic State group's computer networks, senior defense officials said Monday as they claimed to have seized the momentum in the 18-month-old fight against the jihadists.
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Buggy ESET Update Blocks Many Websites
ESET’s home and business customers took to the company’s forums earlier today to complain that they had been prevented from accessing a large number of websites after applying the latest product updates.
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IBM to Acquire Resilient Systems
IBM announced on Monday that it plans to acquire Resilient Systems, a privately-held company that offers an Incident Response Platform (IRP) that helps organizations prepare, assess, manage, and report on privacy breaches and security incidents.
The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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ATMZombie Banking Trojan Hits Israeli Banks
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recently identified and analyzed what is considered the first banking Trojan designed to steal money from Israeli banks.
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Should Application Security Become its Own Discipline?
Let’s play the “Analyst Firm Dating Game.” We asked four of the top analyst firms what technologies they consider to be in the realm of application security. If we compile their answers into a table, it would look like this:
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IRS “Get Transcript” Incident Hit Over 700,000 Taxpayers
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported on Friday that the total number of taxpayers affected by the incident involving the agency’s Get Transcript application is much higher than previously reported.
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European Arrests Target Darknet Selling Drugs, Arms, Fake IDs
Police in seven European countries raided operators of "darknet" online platforms trading in weapons, illegal drugs, fake IDs and counterfeit money, arresting nine suspects, German authorities said Monday.
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