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Cryptocurrencies fell Friday after Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck suspended client deposits and withdrawals for virtual currencies except bitcoin, saying it had been hacked.

Nearly two-thirds of businesses worldwide have experienced significant delays in sales due to customer data privacy concerns, according to Cisco’s 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study.

A man who accessed over 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City-area university to download inappropriate photos and videos was sentenced to 6 months in prison this week.

Dutch intelligence services have provided "crucial evidence" to US counterparts about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, Dutch media reported Friday.

Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller–Maersk, revealed this week at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that the company was forced to reinstall software on nearly 50,000 devices following the NotPetya attack.

Former Yahoo chief information security officer Bob Lord has been appointed chief security officer at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the United States Democratic Party.

The developers of the popular multiprotocol data transfer library libcurl informed users on Wednesday that the latest version addresses two vulnerabilities.

An Internet of Things (IoT) botnet featuring a worm-like spreading mechanism managed to ensnare over 20,000 devices over the course of several days, Bitdefender reports. 

Cybercrime in 2017 was a tumultuous year "full of twists and turns", with new (but old) infection methods, a major return to social engineering, and ups and downs in ransomware.

A large-scale crypto-currency mining operation active for over 4 months is believed to have impacted around 30 million systems worldwide, Palo Alto Networks security researchers say. 

Over the next five years, the threat intelligence market is predicted to grow more than 18% a year and reach nearly $9 billion by 2022. This growth is largely fueled by a fact we’ve all come to live with: we can’t block every attack.

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) announced on Thursday that this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition offers $2 million in cash and prizes, with several new pieces of software added to the list of targets.

Recent cyberattacks associated with the North Korea-linked Lazarus group have used an evolved backdoor, along with a Remote Controller tool, Trend Micro reports. 

Cylus Obtains $4.7 Million in Funding to Help Protect Rail Industry Against CyberattacksCylus, an Israel-based startup that specializes in cybersecurity solutions for the rail industry, emerged from stealth mode on Thursday with $4.7 million in seed funding.

Previously, I’ve written about bridging the cybersecurity knowledge gap in the boardroom. There’s another area where we need to bridge a cybersecurity gap and that’s in the software development lifecycle.

Google this week released Chrome 64 in the stable channel with fixes for 53 security flaws and with additional mitigations against the web-exploitable “Spectre” CPU vulnerability. 

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday sent letters to several tech giants, raising questions about how the disclosure of the CPU vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown was handled.

Eight rights groups including Human Rights Watch called on Lebanese authorities Wednesday to investigate reports of a massive espionage campaign traced back to a government security agency.

A new Internet of Things-targeting piece of malware based on Mirai’s publicly released source code has been observed at large, ensnaring devices into a botnet.