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COMPANY NEWS: Jamf, the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, has announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire ZecOps, a leader in mobile...

<p>TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative has released the rules for this year’s <a href="http://cansecwest.com/index.html">CanSecWest </a>PWN2OWN contest, which will target unpatched flaws in Web browsers and mobile devices.</p> <p>Among the target list this year: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, Windows Mobile, Google Android, BlackBerry, iPhone and Symbian.</p>

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<p>For a long time, the experience of patching Sun’s Java software <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/sun_acknowledges_major_oops_in.html">has been less than pleasant</a>. The updates were huge and time consuming, the patching instructions <a href="http://cybernetnews.com/2008/08/09/helpful-tip-remove-old-versions-of-java-jre/">were a mess</a> and, even worse, Sun never removed older, vulnerable versions from the patche...

<p>It’s been more than six months since Dan Kaminksy detailed the problems he had found lurking in the DNS system, and the coordinated patching effort that followed his discovery was nothing short of extraordinary. A huge percentage of the vulnerable servers were patched before the details of the flaw came out, thanks to behind-the-scenes work by Kaminsky, Microsoft, CERT and others.</p><p>

Despite what you may have seen on 24 or read in Tom Clancy’s novels, the United States is well behind much of the rest of the world in developing both defensive and offensive cybersecurity capabilities, and that’s a deficit that may end up costing us dearly in the long run, according to a longtime government security expert.

CYBER researchers have unearthed two dodgy Android apps that are designed to empty your bank account.The software is dressed up as harmless antivirus

If these Android antivirus apps serve up an update, uninstall them immediately.

An upgraded version of the SharkBot malware has found its way onto Google’s Play Store, with the ability to steal cookies from users and access crypto and bank accounts by bypassing fingerprint and authentication checks.

It’s easy to understand why consumers struggle when it comes to apps, data, and their security. Even the most popular, well-regarded, and well-used...