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Apple wants a "conversation" to help settle a standoff with US law enforcement over accessing an encrypted iPhone, according to testimony prepared for a congressional hearing.

Dell Unveils SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 – Enterprise technology giant Dell announced the launch of SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service, a new offering aimed at delivering better protection against advanced cyber threats.

The Pentagon is expanding its cyber war against Islamic State computer networks, senior defense officials said Monday as they claimed to have seized the momentum in the 18-month-old fight against the jihadists.

ESET’s home and business customers took to the company’s forums earlier today to complain that they had been prevented from accessing a large number of websites after applying the latest product updates.

IBM announced on Monday that it plans to acquire Resilient Systems, a privately-held company that offers an Incident Response Platform (IRP) that helps organizations prepare, assess, manage, and report on privacy breaches and security incidents.The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recently identified and analyzed what is considered the first banking Trojan designed to steal money from Israeli banks.

Let’s play the “Analyst Firm Dating Game.” We asked four of the top analyst firms what technologies they consider to be in the realm of application security. If we compile their answers into a table, it would look like this:

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported on Friday that the total number of taxpayers affected by the incident involving the agency’s Get Transcript application is much higher than previously reported.

Police in seven European countries raided operators of "darknet" online platforms trading in weapons, illegal drugs, fake IDs and counterfeit money, arresting nine suspects, German authorities said Monday.

Roughly 80,000 people might have been impacted by cyber attack that hit a UC Berkeley system containing Social Security and bank account numbers, the university warns.

Apple and the US government are squaring off in an epic legal battle with wide-ranging implications for how technology firms must work with law enforcement.

Just days before the RSA Conference in San Francisco kicked off, Canadian mobile phone maker BlackBerry announced the launch of a new Professional Cybersecurity Services practice and the acquisition of UK-based cybersecurity consulting firm Encription Limited.

The developers of the point-of-sale (PoS) malware known as FighterPOS have added worm capabilities to their creation, and the number of infections detected in the United States has increased over the past period.

Google on Thursday announced the public launch of Project Shield, an initiative aimed at protecting news sites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, for free.

The Pentagon plans to spend an additional $900 million in the coming year to boost cyber defense measures, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday. US officials are still reeling from last year's revelation that personal data from some 20 million federal employees, contractors and others had been hacked in a massive breach at the Office of Personnel Management.

Mozilla has decided to allow Symantec to issue nine new SSL certificates signed using the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function to payment processor Worldpay after the company failed to upgrade devices in time.

Apple has patched more than 60 vulnerabilities with the release of Apple TV 7.2.1, including flaws that can lead to arbitrary code execution, application crashes, and information disclosure.

Apple on Thursday urged a federal court to toss out an order that the company help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino attack, arguing that it was a "dangerous power." The legal response was fired in what promised to be a landmark case pitting national security against personal privacy.

Palo Alto Networks has released updates for PAN-OS, the operating system of its enterprise security platform, to address several vulnerabilities, including ones rated “critical” and “high” severity.

In its seventh annual Mandiant M-Trends report, FireEye-owned Mandiant said that organizations are improving on the time it takes to detect a security breach. While the positive news on improved breach detection is exciting in the current days of cyber doom and gloom, Mandiant also found an increase in the number of destructive attacks hitting organizations.