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The world of virtual currencies was stunned Monday when Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright claimed to be the creator of the Bitcoin.

Paris-based start-up Sqreen announced that it has raised a $2.3 million seed round to ship app 'protection-as-a-service'. This service "provides every developer a simple way to get the security their applications deserve," the company says.

Researchers from Fox-IT have discovered a new attack vector for ransomware aimed at the enterprise. The attack itself is not new, but the combination of this attack combined with persistence and network analysis prior to activating the ransom is new to Fox-IT.

A serious vulnerability found in PwnedList could have been exploited to gain access to millions of account credentials collected by the service.

London - Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright on Monday identified himself as the creator of Bitcoin following years of speculation about who invented the pioneering digital currency. Wright was named by three media outlets -- the BBC, The Economist and GQ magazine -- and posted a blog on his website.

CERT/CC has published an advisory detailing the vulnerabilities uncovered by a researcher in February while trying to find security holes in one of Facebook’s servers.

If you work in information security, the odds are high that you spend a significant amount of time battling ransomware. In a previous article, I covered the fundamental issues and economics that are fueling the rise of this particular type of malware.

Allround Automations has released a new version of its PL/SQL Developer product to address a security flaw that allows man-in-the-middle (MitM) attackers to serve malicious files and execute arbitrary commands.

Microsoft announced on Friday that it’s offering rewards of up to $15,000 for serious vulnerabilities found in Nano Server.

Qatar National Bank said that its systems are "fully secure" following a hacker attack that resulted in a large number of files allegedly stolen from the financial institution’s systems being leaked online.

Fortinet Unveils New Security Fabric and Firewalls Designed to Tackle Challenges of Encrypted Network Traffic 

Cybercriminals stole millions of dollars from Bangladesh’s central bank and they managed to cover their tracks by using custom malware that targeted the SWIFT interbank messaging system.

Mobile malware developers are competing for market share by creating highly sophisticated products or low-cost alternatives to existing offerings.An analysis of the mobile malware marketplace conducted by IBM X-Force researchers showed that cybercriminals looking to make a profit by targeting smartphone users have plenty of products to choose from.

Researchers from Intel Security recently discovered that a piece of malware dubbed "Dynamer" is taking advantage of a Windows Easter Egg called “God Mode” to gain persistency on an infected machine.

Many developers unknowingly expose sensitive data, including business-critical information, when they publish code containing their Slack access tokens on GitHub.

SSL/TLS Encrypted Network Traffic Brings Privacy for Users and Headaches for Security Teams

Researchers at F5 Networks Security Operations Center (SOC) are warning of a new campaign of the Dridex web fraud malware. Previous campaigns had recently focused attacks on financial institutions in the United Kingdom, but among the new campaign’s malware configurations, only 6 percent of the targeted institutions are UK brands, versus 80 percent in the US and 5 percent in Canada.

Security collaboration has, and still is, generating significant attention: How can we join forces and use crowd intelligence to employ better security defense strategies against growing cyber-attack threats?

Researchers discovered a severe cross-domain authentication bypass vulnerability that could have been exploited by malicious actors to gain access to Office 365 accounts, including email and files. Microsoft patched the issue within 7 hours after learning of its existence.

Google on Thursday released an updated version of Chrome 50 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to resolve 9 security vulnerabilities in the popular web browser.