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The EU and United States struck a new deal Tuesday on data transfers relied on by Facebook and Google, after Europe's top court struck down the previous pact for failing to protect users from US spying.

NASA has denied that one of its drones was hacked and that sensitive information was stolen from its systems.A hacker group that allegedly has members in several countries claims to have breached NASA’s networks. The hackers published the contact details of NASA employees, server configurations, videos, and information on some of the space agency’s missions.

In an effort to encourage researchers to responsibly disclose security flaws found in its products, anti-malware company Malwarebytes announced on Monday the launch of a bug bounty program.

Cybercriminals behind the Dridex botnet have ramped up their email campaign activity following a short holiday season break, researchers at FireEye Labs say.

Applied Risk, a company that specializes in securing industrial control systems (ICS), reported finding several serious vulnerabilities in products leveraging WirelessHART technology.

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The European Union agency for network and information security ENISA announced on Monday the launch of a new expert group focusing on the security of smart cars and intelligent road systems.

Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group informed some customers last week that their online accounts had been breached by hackers.

The EU's top justice official on Monday said a deal towards sealing a new transatlantic data-sharing pact was close, despite a missed deadline that could mean a crippling blow to American online giants including Facebook and Google.

An intrusion detection and prevention platform for which the United States government plans on spending $5.7 billion by 2018 has limited capabilities and does not fully meet its intended objectives, according to an audit conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Encrypted communication is making law enforcement and counterterrorism investigations more difficult, but fears of "going dark" are overblown, a study said Monday. The report by Harvard University's Berkman Center said that despite efforts to boost encryption in smartphone and online services, investigations still can gain access to data in many circumstances.

Symantec is now a pure-play cyber security company. The company said on Monday that it has completed the sale of Veritas to a group of investors led by The Carlyle Group, giving Symantec roughly $5.3 billion in after-tax cash proceeds—$1 billion less than the company originally expected to receive from the sale.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a Linux backdoor that has been migrated to Windows and added a series of new capabilities.

ICS-CERT revealed last week that Westermo industrial switches use the same hardcoded SSL private keys, allowing malicious actors to intercept communications and gain unauthorized access to devices.

Information security is one of those big ideas that affects us at all levels, whether as individuals, businesses, nations, and even international relations. In most cases, these different perspectives bring equally different concerns and challenges to security. Yet today, the debate on encryption is replaying across the spectrum of information security.

Hundreds of documents stolen from the systems of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) were leaked online last week, and the individual who made them available claimed to be in possession of much more information.

A modern metropolis rising from Israel's Negev desert stands on the frontline of a global war against hacking and cyber crime, fulfilling an ambition of the country's founding father.

Mozilla is taking another step to protect users, by adding a new warning icon when passwords are requested over non-secure connections.

Kaspersky Lab researchers speaking on The Equation Group at SAS 2015: Igor Sumenkov, Sergery Mineev, Vitaliy Kamlyuk, Costin Raiu. (Image Credit: Kaspersky Lab)