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Researchers from Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group have identified a dozen vulnerabilities in a wireless networking device made by Taiwan-based industrial networking, computing and automation solutions provider Moxa.

The cost of poorly protected device identities has long been assumed, but not proven, to be large. Specification of the part played by SSH abuse within a breach report is rare despite compromised machine identities being used by attackers to hide their malicious activity, evade security controls and steal a wide range of confidential data.

Canada's privacy watchdog on Friday announced an investigation into a US software startup reportedly capable of matching images of unknown faces to photos it mined from millions of websites and social media networks.

Slickwraps, a company that provides protection solutions and accessories for phones, computers and other devices, has revealed that user data was compromised recently after a third party accessed an unprotected database left accessible from the Internet.

Cisco on Monday unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform designed to improve visibility, deliver analytics, and automate common security workflows.

Honeywell has released patches for a couple of potentially serious vulnerabilities affecting a web server used by its Notifier fire alarm systems.

The FBI on Friday arrested a man linked to former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill’s 2018 House campaign for allegedly orchestrating a series of cyberattacks on a rival candidate that shut down the campaign’s website for 21 hours.

Just weeks into this year’s election cycle, Russia already is actively interfering in the U.S. presidential campaign in hopes of reelecting President Donald Trump, and is also trying to help the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, intelligence officials have concluded.

New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google Thursday over allegations the tech company is illegally collecting personal data generated by children in violation of federal and state laws.

Google has removed roughly 600 applications from Google Play for violating its ad-related policies, the Internet search giant announced this week.In addition, the company banned them from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager, its ad monetization platforms.

Workplace experience and facility management company ISS World was hit this week by a malware attack that forced its systems offline.

FireEye’s incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families last year, the company revealed in its M-Trends 2020 report released this week.FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and it tracked a total of 1,268 malware families. Of these malware families, more than 500 were not seen before.

VMware has patched serious vulnerabilities, including remote code execution and authentication bypass issues, in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter.

The United States’ Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) has started notifying people that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach that occured in 2019.

On August 7, 2019, a single credential stuffing attack against a financial services company recorded 55,141,782 malicious login attempts. To put that in perspective, it is more than twice the daily average (22,682,022) of credential abuse attacks detected by Akamai Technologies across all companies in all sectors between December 1, 2017, and November 30, 2019 (a total of 85.42 billion attempts).