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Gamma ray scanners? Night vision cameras? bomb-proof manhole covers? G-Men? It must be Super Bowl time again, and Marion County, Indiana says that they've gone where no other municipality has gone before: a permanent, $18 million regional operation center (yes - ROC) that will manage security at the Big Game.

It appears that hackers in China - not India as previously suspected - were behind the apparent leak of e-mails last week from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Read more »

Banks will have to continue to upgrade their fraud protection controls, especially in the face of new and evolving attacks exclusively designed to evade them, researchers now say. Read more »

Major banks like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group and Bank of America are putting together plans to help identify new security threats before they happen, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal this week. Read more »

More and more fraudulent sites have wrestled their way onto Alexa’s global top 250 ranking list thanks to typosquatting, a technique that attackers use to deceive users into clicking into the wrong website. Read more »

Microsoft announced today it is suing Britain’s second-largest electronics retailer Comet for allegedly creating and selling more than 94,000 back-up discs of its Windows Vista and Windows XP product. Read more »

Detectives from Australia’s Victoria Police last week executed a raid of offices at The Age, one of the largest newspapers in Melbourne, seizing computers and documents they believe were used in a hacking scheme. Read more »

A band of hackers from China was able to gain access to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and retrieve information on the organization’s employees for over a year before they were discovered in May 2010, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today.   Read more »