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The Threat of Cyberattacks on Power Networks is Real, But We Have the Ability to Build Defenses That Minimize The Disruption to Services

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire messaging security firm Cloudmark for $110 million in cash.

Microsoft this week published information on the standards a Windows 10 device is required to meet to be considered highly secure.

The second update released by Google for the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Chrome 62 patches a couple of vulnerabilities rated critical and high severity.The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-15398, has been described as a stack-based buffer overflow affecting QUIC, a transport network protocol that reduces latency compared to TCP.

Siemens and Tenable Partner to Provide Asset Discovery and Vulnerability Management For Industial Networks

Avira, a firm known mostly for its antivirus products, announced on Monday the launch of a new IoT security solution designed to help Internet service providers (ISPs) and router manufacturers protect their customers’ home networks.

'Paradise Papers' Expose Financial Moves by Global Elite

US President Donald Trump has tweeted energetically throughout his Asian tour so far, but in China he will likely be one of a select few to skirt the country's ban on his cherished website.

NeuVector, a San Jose, Calif.-based developer of container security technology, today announced that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Remote attackers can cause thousands of Brother printers to temporarily stop working by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability discovered recently by researchers at Trustwave.

The campaigns of a cyber espionage group believed to be operating out of Vietnam have become increasingly sophisticated, up to the point where they rival operations launched by the notorious Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Turla, incident response firm Volexity said on Monday.

A newly discovered ransomware family called "GIBON" is targeting all files on machines that it has managed to infect, except those located in the Windows folder.

The Quackbot and Emotet information stealing Trojans have been showing renewed activity over the past several months and are increasingly targeting enterprises, small and medium businesses, and other organizations, Microsoft says.

The incidence of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks has consistently grown over the last few years, "steadily becoming one of the biggest threats to Internet stability and reliability." Over the last year or so, the emergence of IoT-based botnets -- such as Mirai and more recently Reaper, with as yet unknown total capacity

Organizations That Do Not Invest Even in Baseline Security Are Realistically Uncompetitive

A critical vulnerability that could reveal a Tor user’s IP address was addressed over the weekend in the privacy-focused web browser.

GhostWriter: Writable AWS S3 Buckets Could Be Exploited to Overwrite Existing Data and Files, or Upload Malware

An update released by Taiwan-based industrial automation company Advantech for its WebAccess product patches two remote code execution vulnerabilities, ICS-CERT reported on Thursday.Advantech WebAccess is a browser-based software package for human-machine interfaces (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Equifax said Friday an internal review found that four executives who sold shares ahead of disclosure of a massive data breach at the credit agency were unaware of the incident ahead of the sale.

Over the past year there have been a large number of high profile security breaches. Millions of organizations have been impacted. Tens of millions of names along with personally identifiable information has been stolen. Billions of dollars in damages have resulted. It’s almost like we haven’t been investing more time and money into cybersecurity than ever.