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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated perl-Test-MockObject packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

If you've ever dropped, broken or drowned your mobile phone, Kyocera Wireless has a deal for you: two new waterproofed Android phones, one of them ruggedized, aimed at first-time smartphone buyers looking for affordable handsets. The products were announced for the U.S market at this week's CTIA cellular industry conference in Las Vegas.

If you've ever dropped, broken or drowned your mobile phone, Kyocera Wireless has a deal for you: two new waterproofed Android phones, one of them ruggedized, aimed at first-time smartphone buyers looking for affordable handsets. The products were announced for the U.S market at this week's CTIA cellular industry conference in Las Vegas.

Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday.

The annual AusCERT conference began on the Gold Coast with an invasion by some friendly storm troopers. Delegates heard insights from Google, the Department of Environment and Queensland Police Service. The conference continues until Friday.

Blue Coat Systems, a provider of Web traffic filtering and business assurance products and services, plans to buy security analytics specialist Solera Networks, which uses data mining techniques to classify network traffic and detect potential security threats.

A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal their credentials, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer.

The WikiLeaks political party is a step closer to being registered in Australia.

Google has urged security professionals to help Australians stay safe on the National Broadband Network (NBN).

China's Baidu has long dominated the country's search market. But a local rival to the company is bolstering its own search services with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated libksba packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated perl-XML-Dumper package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

A survey of U.S. utilities shows many are facing frequent cyberattacks that could threaten a highly interdependent power grid supplying more than 300 million people, according to a congressional report.

Developers being overly trusting is one of them.

Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the company is ducking taxes by shifting profits to subsidiaries that the company does not consider tax residents of any nation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated jboss-ec2-eap packages that add one enhancement are now available for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2013-0913, CVE-2013-0914, CVE-2013-1767, CVE-2013-1774, CVE-2013-1792, CVE-2013-1819, CVE-2013-1848, CVE-2013-1860, CVE-2013-1929, CVE-2013-1979, CVE-2013-2094, CVE-2013-2546, CVE-2013-2547, CVE-2013-2548, CVE-2013-2634, CVE-2013-2635, CVE-2013-3076, CVE-2013-3222, CVE-2013-3224, CVE-2013-3225, CVE-2013-3231

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 packages that fix three security issues, various bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2012-4529, CVE-2012-4572, CVE-2012-5575

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 packages that fix three security issues, various bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. CVE-2012-4529, CVE-2012-4572, CVE-2012-5575

Security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in the engines of several popular first-person shooter video games that could allow attackers to compromise their online servers and the computers of players accessing them.