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A lawyer for a 23-year-old British computer security researcher accused of creating malware to attack the banking system on Monday called him a "hero" and predicted he would be "fully vindicated."

Four people have been arrested in India for leaking an episode from HBO's "Game of Thrones" television series before it was aired in the country, police said Monday.

The North Korea-linked cyber espionage group known as Lazarus is believed to be behind attacks targeting individuals involved with United States defense contractors, Palo Alto Networks reported on Monday.

There are 4.1 million Windows endpoints online that would accept communication via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in one way or another, a recent Rapid7 report reveals.

Over the past week, a debate has spurred over a report from security services firm DirectDefense, claiming that Carbon Black’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, Cb Response, is a prolific data leaker and exposes client data.

An update released by VMware for its NSX-V network virtualization solution patches an important denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability.The security hole, tracked as CVE-2017-4920, exists in the OSPF protocol implementation in NSX-V due to it not handling link-state advertisement (LSA) correctly.

Security updates released last week by the developers of the open source object-relational database management system PostgreSQL address three vulnerabilities and more than 50 bugs reported in the last three months.

WikiLeaks has published documents that describe a remote tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to collect RTSP/H.264 video streams.

Microsoft Agrees to Kaspersky Lab's Demands Microsoft and Kaspersky are friends again, and the whole anti-virus ecosystem is at peace. 

HBO offered a reward of $250,000 in response to a data breach at the television group that produces "Game of Thrones," according to a report from a leaked memo. The report by Variety on Thursday said HBO offered the payment as a "bug bounty," which is offered by companies to discover vulnerabilities in their computer networks.

Symantec has released an update for its Messaging Gateway email security product to address remote code execution and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities.The more serious of the security holes, tracked as CVE-2017-6327 and classified as high severity, is a remote code execution flaw discovered by Philip Pettersson.

A notorious Russia-linked hacker group specializing in cyber espionage is believed to be behind an ongoing campaign targeting hotels in several European countries.

Security researchers have found more than one thousand applications rigged with spyware over the past six months, including some distributed via Google Play.

Hackers Say Humans Are the Weakpoint and That Traditional Defenses Cannot Protect Them

Japanese electrical equipment company Fuji Electric has released an update for one of its human-machine interface (HMI) products to address several vulnerabilities.