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In the light of several recent data breaches and account compromises, Reddit has decided to kick off a service-wide hunt for account takeovers and...

BOSTON, MA - SecurityWeek’s 2016 CISO Forum will take place on June 1-2, 2016 at the Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay.

A recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability is being abused in a new malvertising campaign that redirects users to the Angler exploit kit (EK),...

Released on Wednesday in the stable channel, Chrome 51 patches 42 security vulnerabilities, including 23 flaws that have been disclosed by external researchers.

FrameworkPOS, a piece of malware used to capture payment card data from the memory processes running on Point-of-Sale systems, is being used in a...

Microsoft Banning Commonly Used Passwords and Adding Account Lockout FeatureWeak and commonly-used passwords are one of the main reasons online accounts can be easily...

An operation conducted on May 18 by the French Gendarmerie of Pau, in cooperation with the Investigative Unit of the Italian State Police of...

A series of attacks carried out against banks in the Middle East in early May were using unique scripts that are not commonly seen...

As ransomware authors continue to increase their presence on the threat landscape, the group behind the DMA Locker malware is getting ready for massive...

Microsoft has detailed some of the steps it is taking to combat terrorism, which include removing terrorist content from its services and partnering with...

Google on Friday announced a new version of its Safe Browsing API and a focus on maximizing protection for both mobile and desktop users.

A Critical Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment (QSEE) affects around 60 percent of all Android devices around the...

Cybercriminals using Ransomware appear to be leveraging infected machines for additional nefarious purposes, such as launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, researchers at...

Symantec researchers this week detailed what they say is a China-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been launching numerous attacks against high-profile...

The operations of TeslaCrypt, one of the largest ransomware threats over the past months, appear to have shut down, with its authors already releasing...

Macro malware, a major threat in the 1990s, has recently returned to focus and is evolving, courtesy of tricks designed to better keep the...

Malware authors are constantly trying to build their malicious files to remain undetected by security products and pack their malicious programs with anti-virus detection...

Hackers once again took a swing at the Locky distribution network and replaced the malicious payload with a benign file, researchers at F-Secure report.

Starting on June 16, 2016, the old SSLv3 and RC4 security protocols will no longer be supported on Google’s SMTP servers and on Gmail’s...

Petya, a piece of malware observed in late March to encrypt the entire hard drive o infected computers, has received an update and is...