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Virsec, a cybersecurity company that protects applications from various attacks, today announced that it has closed a $24 million Series B funding round led by tech investment firm BlueIO.

Attackers can use online sandbox services to exfiltrate data from an isolated network, a SafeBreach security researcher has discovered.

Expedia-owned travel website Orbitz announced on Tuesday that it has discovered and addressed a data security incident affecting hundreds of thousands of users.

A Zero Trust Security Model Allows Organizations to Align Their Security Investments With What Works Best

Apple has added new protections to the WebKit framework to prevent possible abuse of the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) security standard to track users.

Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Launches Automated Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Simulation Platform

Many oil and gas companies in the Middle East reported suffering at least one serious security incident in the past year, according to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute on behalf of German industrial giant Siemens.

Moscow - Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the popular Telegram messenger app must provide the country's security services with encryption keys to read users' messaging data, agencies reported.

Coverity Scan, a free service used by tens of thousands of developers to find and fix bugs in their open source projects, was suspended in February after hackers breached some of its servers and abused them for cryptocurrency mining.

Facebook's chief of security late Monday said his role has shifted to focusing on emerging risks and election security at the global social network, which is under fire for letting its platform be used to spread bogus news and manipulate voters.

Frost Bank, a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., announced on Friday that it discovered the unauthorized access to images of checks stored electronically.

[UPDATE] Facebook shares plunged Monday as the social media giant was pounded by criticism at home and abroad over revelations that a firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign harvested and misused data on 50 million members.

Another cybersecurity firm has independently confirmed some of the AMD processor vulnerabilities discovered by Israel-based CTS Labs, but the controversial disclosure has not had a significant impact on the value of the chip giant’s stock.

Recovering Encrypted Firefox Passwords via Brute Force Attacks is Easy, Developer Says

At the center of a scandal over alleged misuse of Facebook users' personal data, Cambridge Analytica is a communications firm hired by those behind Donald Trump's successful US presidential bid.

A cyberespionage group believed to be operating out of Russia hijacked a Cisco router and abused it to obtain credentials that were later leveraged in attacks targeting energy companies in the United Kingdom, endpoint security firm Cylance reported on Friday.

Facebook says it has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm hired by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, amid reports it harvested the profile information of millions of US voters without their permission.

Human-powered Intelligence Plays a Critical Role in Defending Against Socially Engineered Attacks

As Americans wait to see whether net neutrality can gain enough support among lawmakers to invoke disapproval via the Congressional Review Act, individual states are not waiting -- several are working on state laws to maintain net neutrality within their own borders.