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Singapore confirmed Wednesday it would cut off Internet access for government work stations within a year for security reasons, a surprise move in one of the world's most wired countries.

Recently, we’ve seen evidence of the increase in insider threats related to outsiders obtaining and abus

Mozilla addressed more than a dozen vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser with the release of version 47 on Tuesday, including issues rated as having critical impact.

Dominated by an overall increase in the number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the first quarter of the year also saw a record number of attacks (19) larger than 100 Gbps, a recent report from Akamai reveals.

Google on Monday released the June 2016 set of security updates for the Android operating system, meant to patch a total of 40 vulnerabilities in the platform: 8 Critical, 28 High, and 4 Medium severity.

One of the Windows features that has been long abused by cybercriminals is the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), and researchers at SecureWorks warn that a lesser-known capability in BITS is now leveraged to download malware.

Cloud computing remains a problem for many businesses. While the move to IaaS is gathering pace, it is still true that most organizations operate a hybrid approach, combining cloud apps and on-premise data. According to Egnyte, 85% of apps are now in the cloud, while 85% of data is still on premises. This creates a huge governance issue as corporate data moves into and out of cloud applications.

Port Scanning Project Infers Security Posture by Country

Network security company Fortinet (FTNT) announced on Tuesday the acquisition of AccelOps, a Santa Clara, CA-based firm that specializes in network security monitoring and performance analytics solutions.

Let me ask you a very simple question.“What is your organization’s sensitive data, and where is it?” 

Brian Richard Farrell, a 27-year-old accused of being a key administrator of the dark web criminal marketplace Silk Road 2.0, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and four years of supervised release.

Researchers discovered that Facebook Messenger is plagued by a vulnerability that allows hackers to replace the content of the messages they send through the application. The social media giant addressed the issue, but rated it “low risk.”

Just three months after announcing that he would leave the firm he started, WhiteHat Security founder Jeremiah Grossman has joined endpoint security firm SentinelOne as chief of security strategy.

When all is too much

Hackers Can Disable Alarm on Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Cars

A security researcher earned $10,000 through Uber’s bug bounty program for reporting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting a third party WordPress plugin.

The blame game over who should be held responsible for the bank thefts via SWIFT continues. Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) has already launched action against Wells Fargo for releasing $12 million to accounts largely in Hong Kong, claiming it failed to respond to red flags in the transactions.

Last month it was LinkedIn (117 million passwords) and MySpace (427 million passwords). This weekend the same hacker, [email protected], made available a further 100 million password credentials stolen from Russian social media site VK.

Angler, currently considered the most sophisticated and most successful exploit kit, has been observed delivering Flash and Silverlight exploits capable of evading Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).