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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a complaint with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claiming that Google is spying on students with the help of Chromebooks.

APTs: The Battlefield and Rules of Engagement Have Changed

Symantec said on Wednesday that it will invest $50 million to boost its cyber security services business globally, with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

A security researcher has uncovered an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the mobile version of the Yahoo! Mail website.Ibrahim Raafat discovered a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could have been exploited by malicious actors for various purposes.

Google announced on Tuesday the availability of Chrome 47, a version that brings 41 security fixes, including more than a dozen serious vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.

The data breach suffered by Chinese educational toymaker VTech is more serious than initially thought, as the company has confirmed that nearly 5 million customer accounts and more than 6 million kids profiles have been compromised.

Australia's weather bureau has been hit by a major cyber attack, a report said Wednesday, with insiders blaming the breach on China and saying it could cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix.

Attacks launched in August by a Chinese APT group against media organizations based in Hong Kong leveraged a piece of malware that abused Dropbox for command and control (C&C) communications, FireEye reported on Tuesday.

A researcher has published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for several unpatched vulnerabilities affecting Belkin’s N150 wireless home routers.

Schneider Electric has released an update for its ProClima product to address a series of vulnerabilities that could allow a remote attacker to execute unauthorized code.

ThreatConnect., an Arlington, VA.-based threat intelligence platform platform provider, today announced that it has closed a Series B Funding round in excess of $16 Million. The company said it would use the investment to increase its market penetration globally.

BlackBerry announced on Monday that it will cease offering its services in Pakistan on Dec. 30, after refusing the government’s demand for a backdoor into its encrypted communication service.

The World is Moving Faster and Security Can’t Keep Up. Fiona: You didn’t slay the dragon? Shrek: It’s on my to-do list.

Researchers have identified several high severity vulnerabilities in the Videofied alarm system offered by RSI Video Technologies.

The US government has halted its controversial program to collect vast troves of information from Americans' phone calls, a move prompted by the revelations of former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden.

Some Raspberry Pi devices are affected by a security issue stemming from the Raspbian operating system generating weak and predictable SSH keys.

OpenSSL updates scheduled for release on December 3 will address several vulnerabilities, the OpenSSL Project announced on Monday.

The developers of Node.js, the popular cross-platform runtime environment, this week will release security updates that patch a couple of vulnerabilities, one of which has been rated as having high impact.

Enterprises relying on Microsoft’s System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) or Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) to keep their Windows environments safe can now take advantage of new potentially unwanted application (PUA) protection, Microsoft has announced.

Hackers managed to steal the personal details of nearly 5 million parents and more than 200,000 children from the systems of Chinese educational toy manufacturer VTech.