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A new report from security solutions provider Check Point provides further insight into the activities of the Iran-linked threat group known as Rocket Kitten.

Several popular Java-based products are affected by a serious vulnerability that can be exploited by malicious actors to remotely execute arbitrary code.

UK-based postcard-sending service Touchnote learned last week that its systems had been breached in an attack that resulted in customer details getting stolen.

Intelligence intercepts that suggested Russia's Metrojet airliner might have been bombed show how surveillance by US and British spies can be used to shed light on suspected militant attacks, experts say.

Germany's secret service "systematically spied" on its allies and various international organizations such as the Red Cross, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday.

Cybercriminals intensified the distribution of malware on Fridays during the third quarter of 2015, the latest CYREN Cyber Threat Report reveals.

Broadband communications company Cox has agreed to pay a heavy fine to settle allegations by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it had failed to protect customers’ personal information.Cox has agreed to pay a $595,000 settlement as part of what the FCC calls its first privacy and data security enforcement action against a cable operator.

Researchers at Russian antivirus company Doctor Web have come across a new file-encrypting ransomware that appears to be targeting machines running Linux operating systems.The security firm believes tens of users have already fallen victim to the threat, which seems to be mainly aimed at webmasters whose machines host web servers.

ProtonMail, the end-to-end encrypted e-mail service used by activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and others looking for enhanced privacy, continues to be offline following a powerful and continuous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting its data center.

Just this past week, a recent study hit the news that concluded - as many studies have before it - that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is fundamentally not effective at making air travel more secure in a post-9/11 world.

TalkTalk reported on Friday that the personal details of only 156,959 customers were accessed in the recent data breach.

Brussels - The EU said Friday it hoped to reach a new deal with Washington within three months on data transfers which major firms like Facebook rely on, but demanded "bullet-proof" privacy protections.

Ubiquiti Networks products have the remote administration feature enabled by default and a new flaw found by researchers at SEC Consult allows malicious hackers to quickly identify potentially vulnerable devices.

CryptoWall 4.0 has been released recently and the latest version of the notorious file-encrypting ransomware brings several notable changes.

Geneva-based encrypted email service ProtonMail has been offline for most of the past two days after being targeted by what the company is calling an “extremely powerful DDoS attack.”

Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry is the latest Android-phone maker to commit to releasing monthly security patches for its devices to resolve vulnerabilities discovered in the popular mobile operating system.

Researchers at Avast have conducted a brief analysis of OmniRAT, a multi-platform remote administration tool (RAT) that has been used for malicious purposes.

Cisco has released software updates to address a series of critical and high severity vulnerabilities affecting some of the company’s security and wireless appliances.

Researchers at Check Point Technologies have analyzed an “offline” ransomware that doesn’t need to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server in order to encrypt files on the infected machine.