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Micro-blogging site Twitter says it is bringing in a two-step login for users to beef up security following recent high-profile breaches.

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to help ensure customers are aware that an update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine also addresses a security vulnerability reported to Microsoft. The update addresses a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine scans a specially crafted file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code in the security context of the LocalSystem account and take complete control of the system.

NSS Labs finds that IE 10 spots nearly all malware, while Safari, Firefox, and Opera prove particularly unsafe

A hack on a U.S. army database containing information about thousands dams was traced to China.

Legislation, stealth technologies, and emerging data privacy markets are proving that the battle for our Internet privacy has only just begun

Instawallet, which stores a person's bitcoins, said it will refund some lower balances afterits database was fraudulently accessed

Perpetrators of the DDoS ambush against Spamhaus exploited open DNS resolvers in third-party servers

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New techniques bypass existing mitigations and allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic

Hackers need only a single malicious link or email to crack your corporate security. These simple steps help keep phishing attacks at bay