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Facebook said Thursday it had received 13 percent more government requests for user data in the second half of 2015, with more than 46,000 requests worldwide. The leading social network, in its twice-annual "transparency report," said the number of items "restricted" for violating local laws more than doubled compared to the prior six-month period, to 55,827.

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published the latest version of its data security standard to address increased threats and more sophisticated attacks targeting customer payment information.

Symantec on Thursday said that President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Brown will be stepping down as head of the security firm after a successor has been appointed.A search is currently underway for the Company’s next CEO, and Brown will remain on board until a replacement has been appointed. 

The US military's secretive Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is working to destroy the Islamic State group's Internet connections and leave the jihadists in a state of "virtual isolation," Pentagon chiefs said Thursday.

The OpenSSL Project announced on Thursday that it’s preparing patches for several vulnerabilities affecting the crypto library.OpenSSL versions 1.0.2h and 1.0.1t will be released on May 3 between 12:00 and 15:00 UTC. These releases will patch several flaws, including ones rated “high severity.”

A new version of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) released this week by the NTP Project patches several low and medium severity vulnerabilities.

Information security firm High-Tech Bridge has launched a new free service to help web site owners and businesses understand and locate domain name threats that could be targeted at them and their customers. Called Domain Security Radar, the new service automatically lists existing domains that could potentially

While threats emanating from ISIS-inspired cyberattacks are of high concern, intelligence analysts have concluded that, as of now, the cyber capabilities of the Islamic State and its supporters are still relatively weak and appear to be underfunded and poorly organized.

UPDATED. Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group has come across a piece of software that installed backdoors on 12 million computers around the world.

Mozilla has patched a total of 14 vulnerabilities, including ones rated critical and high severity, with the release of Firefox 46.

Washington - The FBI said Wednesday it would not disclose details of its hack of an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino killing spree.

Verizon has published its widely anticipated 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), compiled by Verizon with the support of 67 contributing partners. This year’s report includes analysis of more than 100,000 security incidents and 2,260 confirmed data breaches across 82 different countries.

It was reported today that multiple forms of malware have been found in a German nuclear energy plant in Gundremmingen, 75 miles north-west of Munich. Coming almost precisely 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster, with memories of recent European terrorist events, and the lingering memory of the Stuxnet worm as the world's first cyberweapon, concerns are immediate and obvious.

Instead of developing their own hacking tools or buying them from third parties, threat groups have increasingly turned their attention to open source security tools, Kaspersky Lab reported on Wednesday.

The accounts of more than 7 million members of the Minecraft community “Lifeboat” have been exposed after a data breach in early 2016.

The Value of Knowing More About Threats is Limited When it Cannot be Applied to Prevent Threats 

Microsoft has been observing the activities of a cyber espionage group that has leveraged a Windows patching system in attacks aimed at organizations in South and Southeast Asia.

Germany announced Wednesday it is replacing the head of its foreign intelligence service, which has been rocked by revelations it helped the US National Security Agency spy on European targets.

The Qatar National Bank (QNB) has launched an investigation after someone leaked a large number of files allegedly stolen from the financial institution’s systems as a result of a hacker attack.