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An analysis of 35,000 companies from more than 20 industries across the world showed that many of them are at risk of suffering a data breach due to their failure to ensure that the software running on their computers is up to date.

If you attended RSA Conference this year, you probably heard many vendors talk about machine learning for cybersecurity.

Earlier this week, a researcher analyzed a newly detected technique for delivering malware involving PowerPoint files and mouseover events. Today, Trend Micro has published details on a spam campaign it detected in late May using the same technique.

Cisco informed customers this week that its Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is affected by two critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution and to access the product’s administrative console.

Updates released by VMware this week for its Horizon View Client and vSphere Data Protection (VDP) products address a total of three critical and important vulnerabilities.

Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster."Al Jazeera Media Network under cyber attack on all systems, websites & social media platforms," it said on Twitter. 

Researchers at Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web have come across a couple of new Linux Trojans, including one that abuses Raspberry Pi computers for cryptocurrency mining.

Having been in the field of Information Technology for 30+ years, I continue to find it interesting that what looks like new technology is very seldom completely new, or in a lot of cases, even new at all. We’ve recently been looking at IoT, and how it’s similar to Industrial Controls and related technologies. 

As cyberattacks sow ever greater chaos worldwide, IT titan Microsoft and independent experts are pushing for a new global NGO tasked with the tricky job of unmasking the hackers behind them.

The starting point for a new study from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology is not new: "There are only two types of networks, those that have been compromised and those that are compromised without the operator's awareness." Since it is impossible to defend the network, the solution is surely to defend the data. Here encryption can offer something more like a guarantee of security.

Industrial giant Honeywell said on Thursday that it will establish a new industrial cyber security center of excellence (COE) for Asia Pacific in Singapore. 

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Boston-based security orchestration firm Hexadite for an undisclosed sum.

Applying Unfiltered Threat Intelligence to Defenses Generates Significant False Positives

It was a major scoop for The Intercept --  documents suggesting a concerted Russian effort to hack US election systems -- but the online news site is drawing fire in media circles following the arrest of the alleged source of the leak.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab recently came across a new Trojan designed to target Android smartphones. The malware, delivered via the Google Play store, is capable of rooting devices and it leverages some new techniques to achieve its goal.