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A banking Trojan that has plagued Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone users has now made its way to Android devices.

Discourage data leaks, standardize and optimize file transfer--that's the ambition of Managed File Transfer (MFT) products. Here, experts offer practical advice on using these tools.

Data in transit. Those three words are at the heart of business in the 21st century and the rise the of the secure managed file transfer (MFT) industry. Companies function by sending, receiving and sharing information, often in very large files, and often in huge numbers of files in batch transactions. Files have to move quickly, reliably and securely.

Sony's president of network entertainment must look at the world through rose-colored glasses because he describes the hacking that took down the PlayStation Network as "a great learning experience."

US talkshow host Jay Leno, singer Madonna, actress Cameron Diaz and President Barack Obama share an unpleasant secret their publicists are powerless to do anything about.

Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cybersecurity adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Three men behind in a phishing gang police believe stole over £4 million ($6.3 million) from credit cards and online bank accounts in the UK and Ireland have been sentenced to a total of 13.5 years in jail.

Agricultural technology firm Monsanto became the latest target of hacktivists this week, when hackers donning the mantle of the distributed protest group Anonymous claimed that it had penetrated the firm's network and leaked personal information on 2,500 of the company's employees.

Most users of Adobe's hugely popular PDF Reader are content to use out-of-date and potentially insecure versions of the program, an analysis by antivirus company Avast Software has revealed.

The founder of the social network decided to get a little antisocial on another service. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin all elected to up their privacy settings on Google+.

The European Commission is examining whether additional rules are needed on personal data breach notification in the European Union.

The hack of Sony's PlayStation Network in April this year was launched from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform. But Amazon is keen to emphasise that it has procedures in place to reduce the likelihood of it happening again.

Suncorp and IDC added to the agenda for the Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (III)

Mobile staff of a large financial firm in China are enjoying the convenience of working remotely through a security solution provided by Check Point Software Technologies.

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi router and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden.

Anonymous has posted names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Monsanto employees, and is promising action against Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland and others.

Managing consumer or citizen identities comes with two key problems--scale and cost--prompting organizations that require onboarding, authentication, and password management to look for ways to outsource this effort. Entertainment websites, online retailers, and even US federal government-to-citizen websites are experimenting with a federated model for more of their identity management life cycle. By using single sign-on (SSO) and attribute-sharing between "social" identity providers (IdPs) (i.e. Google and Facebook) and relying parties (RPs), this model effectively reduces cost and improves the customer experience.

Intel appointed new leaders to run the McAfee subsidiary as David DeWalt resigned as the unit's president, the company said on Wednesday.

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finished their arguments on Wednesday in London's High Court as to why the WikiLeaks founder should not be extradited to Sweden to face questioning on potential charges of molestation and rape.

A new feature from Google for Google Voice takes the power of the "Report Spam" button and multiplies it exponentially. Google is applying the collected data from thousands of Google Voice users to automatically identify telemarketers and other unwanted calls and send them directly into the spam folder.