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Agency engages key leaders and experts for frank discussion on cyber security Nearly 700 experts from the cyber community—half of which were new to the DARPA cyber community—joined Agency and other Defense Department cyber leaders in Arlington, Va. at DARPA’s “Colloquium on Future Directions in Cyber Security,”Monday. A general agreement by all attendees was rapidly reached;…

Its owner and operator, Valve, uncovered an intrusion into a user database while investigating a security breach of its discussion forums. The attackers used login details from the forum hack to access a database that held ID and credit card data. Valve said that, so far, it had no evidence that credit cards were being…

Wrapped in the code used to infect computers is an "Easter egg," or a hidden message. Easter eggs have long been inserted in computer code, often seen only by those who enjoy browsing computer code. Duqu’s exploit, the code used to take advantage of a software vulnerability, contained the line: "Copyright (c) 2003 Showtime Inc….

A computer virus disabled the automated response system of St John communication centres across the country this week. Ambulance communications operations manager Alan Goudge said systems were back up and running yesterday morning after being attacked by the virus on Wednesday night. The incident forced staff to allocate ambulances manually but it is still unknown…

@IGetRoot has dumped a fairly large amount of user account information from a well known android mobile application website. the website mAPPn.com also provides many other useful resources for android users. The leak contains users names, emails and encrypted passwords. be sure to use CTRL+F to quick search for your email if you use this website.

No 53 Wentworth Avenue in Kingston, the newly created building’s complete third floor is now home to Lockhead martins new cyber security testing center for its clients. Lockhead martin says that clients can come in and use the computing power of 1000+ top end desktop pcs to wage attacks on there own systems but they can not…