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The US Senate Tuesday passed cybersecurity legislation aimed at facilitating sharing of attack threats, a measure backed by the US administration but opposed by many tech giants and privacy activists. The 74-21 vote sends the measure to the House of Representatives, which earlier this year approved a similar bill.

Everyone is talking about the shortage in security talent. Literally, everyone. It’s not for naught though, when you look at the sheer volume of open positions out there. We must have a talent shortage, right?

CIA chief John Brennan said Tuesday he was "outraged" that hackers broke into his personal email account, and faulted the media for its coverage of the incident. WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group, began releasing documents from Brennan's private AOL account last week, days after a teenage hacker was reported to have claimed he had gained access to the account.

Cisco on Tuesday announced its intention to acquire network security company Lancope, Inc. for $452.5 million in an effort to boost its threat defense capabilities.

Malicious actors started exploiting a Joomla vulnerability patched last week within hours after its details were disclosed.

The Dridex banking Trojan is still active, despite arrests and damage caused to the threat’s infrastructure.Endpoint threat protection company Invincea reported spotting a new Dridex campaign aimed at users in France, and experts have warned that the United States and other countries might follow suit.

The United States Army should establish a central program for disclosing and managing software vulnerabilities plaguing the organization’s systems, according to a paper published last week by two U.S. Army captains.

A 15-year-old boy from Northern Ireland was arrested on Monday in connection to the recent cyberattack on British phone and broadband services provider TalkTalk.

Malicious actors have been using a backdoor Trojan dubbed by researchers “Duuzer” to steal valuable information from organizations in South Korea and elsewhere, Symantec reported on Monday.

Yahoo! announced on Monday that Bob Lord has been appointed the company’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

The recent data breach has not affected core systems and the exposed financial data cannot be used to steal money from customer accounts, U.K.-based phone and broadband services provider TalkTalk said on Sunday.

Intel announced last week the end of life (EoL) for McAfee email security products, and advised customers to start transitioning to a different solution.

German authorities have launched a probe into allegations of a new case of suspected spying linked to the US National Security Agency, a media report said Saturday.

A large number of German users might have been hit by a recent malvertising campaign that leveraged some clever tricks to deliver malware without being detected.

Researchers have uncovered several vulnerabilities in power quality measurement products from Janitza Electronics, a Germany-based company that specializes in the development of energy efficiency systems.

Roughly 18,000 Android applications built using the Taomike SDK, one of the largest mobile advertisement solution platforms in China, have been found to include SMS theft functionality.

Frankfurt - German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom said Friday it is to partner with China's Huawei to offer public cloud computing services in a bid to rival US behemoth Amazon. T-Systems, Telekom's IT division, will run the network and manage cloud storage data in project "Open Telekom Cloud", using Huawei servers and solutions expertise.

U.K.-based phone and broadband services provider TalkTalk informed customers on Thursday that their personal and financial information might have been accessed by malicious actors.

Organizations tasked with investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 have been targeted by the Russia-linked threat group known as Pawn Storm, Trend Micro reported on Thursday.

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