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Researchers find large global botnet of infected PoS systems

The botnet contained almost 1,500 compromised point-of-sale and other retail systems from 36 countries, researchers from IntelCrawler said

Point-of-sale attacks accounted for a third of data breaches in 2013, report says

However, a significant rise in attacks targeting sensitive data not related to payment cards was also observed, Trustwave says

Symantec tailors sharper small business security suite

Norton Small Business works on Windows, OS X and Android with limited features for iOS

Home routers: Broken windows to the world

‘Elderwood’ hackers continue to set pace for zero-day exploits

Symantec believes the group may be more diverse and well funded than believed

Estonian electronic voting system vulnerable to attacks, researchers say

International research team finds insecure operational procedures and fundamental weaknesses in Estonian Internet voting system

Time to modernize thinking, technology in fighting malware

DOJ asks for new authority to hack and search remote computers

The agency asks that judges be allowed to issue warrants to search computers outside their judicial districts

Bitly discloses account compromise, urges users to change passwords

Company said account credentials were compromised, but refused to provide details

Hackers hoped for slam dunk on Japan Basketball Association website

The sole attack using a recent IE zero-day was on the JBA's website, linked to a high-ranking government official, Symantec said