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 Dakota State University in Madison, SD will offer a new doctoral degree in cyber security this fall.

A number of U.S. states are jointly investigating a data breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed the social security numbers of 200 million people.

Yahoo has added more layers of security in its effort to shield people's online lives from government spying and other snooping.

The mobile malware “zoo” totaled 3.73 million samples at the end of the year. According to McAfee Labs Threats Report, Fourth Quarter 2013, malware can arrive on a mobile device through just about every attack vector, such as downloaded apps, malicious website, spam, malicious SMS messages, and malware-bearing advertisements.

A recent study shows that 95 percent of American bank ATMs still run on Windows XP, but Windows is discontinuing support (including security updates) of the XP operating system as of April 8, 2014.

The United Kingdom has launched a new cyber security system called the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK) to deal with incidents of national significance, including threats to the government, industry and academia.

Changing your organizational culture is the key to aggressively protecting your stakeholders’ information – how can involving your C-Suite make all the difference?

Kent Lawson, founder of Private WiFi, decided to test the wireless network provided at the RSA Conference, and he was surprised at the large amount of completely unprotected communications from security professionals, discovered in a mere 15 minutes.

Security intelligence and changes in the nature of security risk were driving conversations and solutions at the 2014 RSA Conference – What will your C-Suite want to know?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity framework is now available, so how can CSOs and CISOs use it to better frame their cyber efforts and prove their case to the C-Suite?