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Europol has declared war on ransomware with the launch today of its 'no more ransom' initiative. Built around a new online portal (www.nomoreransom.org) and supported by the Dutch National Police, Kaspersky Lab and Intel Security (McAfee), the purpose is to help protect users from ransomware, to help infected victims recover their data, and to gather information for law enforcement agencies.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday it was investigating the "cyber intrusion" at the Democratic National Committee after leaked internal emails show party leaders sought to undermine the campaign of Bernie Sanders.

Enterprise software maker Micro Focus released security updates for its Filr product last week to patch several critical vulnerabilities discovered by researchers at SEC Consult.

The actor behind the Kovter Trojan has come up with a new persistence mechanism over the past weeks and also started masquerading the malware as a Chrome update, Microsoft security researchers warn.

SecurityWeek and Palo Alto Networks will host a live network security webinar on Wednesday, July 27th at 1:00PM ET: Five Steps to a Secure Hybrid Architecture.

Atlanta-based Damballa has been bought for what amounts to a pittance by neighboring Roswell-based Core Security.

A researcher has earned a significant reward from Twitter after finding a critical security hole that gave him access to the source code of Vine, the social media company’s popular video sharing service.

It turned out to be a tricky month for security admins to take that long-awaited summer vacation because July was one of the busiest months in recent memory in terms of vulnerabilities. The vulns were copious and severe, and all the big vendors seemed to suffer.

Researchers at Northeastern University have analyzed the Tor anonymity network and discovered that there are at least 110 nodes that spy on dark web services.

A team of researchers discovered a couple of serious vulnerabilities in PHP and managed to gain remote code execution access on one of the world’s most popular adult websites.Dario Weißer, Ruslan Habalov and an expert who uses the online moniker “cutz” discovered in late May that they could hack PornHub by leveraging vulnerabilities in PHP.

A series of spectacular cyber attacks against banks, resulting in the theft of tens of millions of dollars, has heightened fears for an industry becoming an increasingly attractive target for hackers.

Andrew Helton, 29, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced this week to six months in prison for hacking into hundreds of email accounts, including ones belonging to celebrities.

Google is planning new security features for the upcoming Android 7.0, including verified boot, which will prevent devices with a corrupt or modified boot image from booting.

Researchers have released free tools that allow victims of the Bart and PowerWare file-encrypting ransomware families to recover their data without paying the cybercriminals.

Vulnerabilities in SAP HANA represent a risk to more than 10,000 SAP customers running different versions of the popular business-critical application, security firm Onapsis warns.

Microsoft is strengthening its grip on the cloud with two major new announcements this week. The first is that the Azure Security Center is now generally available; and the second is that Azure Active Directory Identity Protection and Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management options will both be available within the next few months.

Cisco has addressed a critical vulnerability in one of its unified computing solutions and is working on developing patches for products affected by a recently disclosed ASN1C compiler flaw.

The ransomware landscape has been populated with a very long list of new threats since the beginning of the year, but also with c

A total of 18 vulnerabilities found by researchers in Oracle’s Outside In Technology libraries could expose the products of numerous major software vendors to attacks.

There were nearly six million fraud and cyber crimes committed in the UK in the 12 months to March 2016, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) .