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Internal opportunities for information sharing might seem obvious, but are easily overlooked.

An Android Trojan dubbed “Hummer” has infected millions of smartphones and experts believe the malware could have helped cybercriminals make a significant amount of money.

Standard Tools Leveraged in 99% of Post-Intrusion Activities: Report

Only 17% of Android Devices Have Latest Security Patches

Fast-casual restaurant chain Noodles & Company informed customers on Tuesday that its computer systems have been breached and cybercriminals could have stolen payment card data.

Coinciding with the dark web sale of almost 10 million patient healthcare records, Panda Security has released a report (PDF) detailing the evolution of healthcare attacks over the last 10 years.

The 1999 hit movie “Analyze This” can teach us a lot about the future of information security.  In the movie, the main character, Paul Vitti (played by Robert DeNiro) notices a series of changes in, or departures from, his expected behavior.  To get to the crux of the issue, Vitti enlists the help of Psychiatrist Ben Sobel (played by Billy Cry

The notorious cyberespionage group Pawn Storm has targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, the United States, Europe and former Soviet Union countries.

Latest Skirmish in Consumer Privacy vs. Enterprise Security War

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have managed to disrupt an Iran-linked cyberespionage campaign targeting governments and businesses from all around the world.

Symantec has released updates for more than two dozen of its products to address several critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited by remote hackers for arbitrary code execution.

Analysts typically are pretty close in their opinions. They’re analyzing the same markets and pool of vendor solutions, so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t depart much from each other. So it can be entertaining when they disagree, except that as a practitioner, eventually you will have to make a decision on which one is right.

A report published on Tuesday by Trend Micro analyzes cyber threats faced by the mining industry and the motivations of different types of actors for targeting this sector.

Germany on Tuesday approved new measures to rein in the activities of its foreign intelligence agency after a scandal over improper collusion with the US National Security Agency.

A malicious mobile application targeting Android users managed to trick the Google Bouncer protection system and slip into the Google Play marketplace by employing a time-delay attack technique, Symantec researchers warn.

Google has been long touting the security measures that allowed it to diminish malware instances in Google Play, but malicious applications are still able to avoid these and slip into the storefront.

Over the past months, ransomware has become a widespread cyber-threat aimed at enterprises and consumers alike, and a recent massive attack against Office 365 users proves that once again.

Over the past few months, researchers at FireEye have observed several smishing campaigns whose goal was to deliver Android malware to users in Europe.Between February and June 2016, the security firm spotted five smishing, or SMS phishing, operations targeting people in Denmark, Italy, Germany, Austria and possibly some other European countries.

A botnet powered by tens of thousands of compromised CCTV devices located all around the world has been observed launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites.