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“I trust everyone. It’s the devil inside them I don’t trust.” - Stella, The Italian Job

Industrial giant Honeywell and network security firm Palo Alto Networks have established a partnership to offer joint solutions to help customers protect industrial control systems.

Web performance and security company CloudFlare today announced the launch of CloudFlare Registrar, a security-focused service designed for organizations that own high-value domains.

Remember that line from Alan Turing in the movie The Imitation Game? The moment he realized the significance of C-I-L-L-Y?

A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the GNU C Library (glibc) affects most Linux systems and many widely used products, including ones from VMware.

A majority of Americans support the US government's efforts to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone in the probe of last year's deadly San Bernardino attacks, a poll showed Monday.

After raising $100 million in funding last year, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Illumio has been on a mission to secure enterprise data using a dynamic approach that leverages context and relationship data to automatically program a security policy. 

Financially-motivated actors have tried to trick the employees of at least six Russian banks into installing a piece of malware, Symantec reported on Monday.

A pirated, fully functional third-party App Store client for iOS users in China slipped through Apple’s App Store review process and became listed in Apple’s official App Store, researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered.

Apple Says Expert Panel Should Take Up Encryption Issue

A group of cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms have formed a new organization focused on helping policymakers create “consensus-driven” policy solutions.

A tech support tool bundled with Comodo security products was plagued by a vulnerability that could have been exploited by a local attacker to elevate their privileges on the system.

Andrew Helton, 29, of Portland, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a felony computer hacking charge and admitted to hacking the Apple and Gmail accounts of 363 people, including several celebrities.

With RSA Conference on the horizon, odds are that if you make it to the exhibit floor, you will hear a lot about data science and machine learning.

Strategic Cyber Ventures Launches Investment Fund to Support Cybersecurity Innovators   A group of veteran cybersecurity professionals have joined forces to form a new investment fund focused on investing in innovative cybersecurity startups.

A court order the US government requested to force Apple to unlock an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting rampage is about "the victims and justice," FBI Director James Comey said.

The source code of an Android Trojan that allows cybercriminals to steal online banking credentials and other information from infected devices has been leaked.

The developers of the popular Linux Mint distribution have shut down the official website and forum after they were both breached by a hacker.

Here's another use for the smartphone as it invades daily life: in place of your debit card at your bank cash machine. The "cardless" automatic teller machine (ATM) is gaining ground in the US and around the world, with smartphone technology allowing for speedier and more secure transactions.

The US Justice Department on Friday sought a court order to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone as part of the probe into last year's San Bernardino attacks, escalating a legal showdown over encryption.