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The director of the US National Security Agency on Monday sought allies at an elite technology conference amid lingering distrust about widespread online snooping. Admiral Michael Rogers, who heads US Cyber Command as well as directing the NSA, stated his case at the opening of a Wall Street Journal WSJDLive conference here.

A teenaged hacker broke into CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account and swiped sensitive files including a top-secret application for a security clearance, the New York Post reported.

Thales Group, parent of Thales e-Security, a provider of data protection solutions to the financial services, high tech manufacturing, government and technology sectors, announced on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire data protection firm Vormetric for $400 million.

Apple is kicking out applications that collect personal data in violation of the company's privacy policies from its online store, the tech giant said Monday. The iPhone maker made the announcement a day after researchers discovered hundreds of apps using Chinese advertising software that extracts "personally identifiable user information."

A large number of websites powered by eBay’s Magento e-commerce platform have been breached and abused to deliver malware, researchers warned over the weekend.

The Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), an advocacy organization supporting financial, insurance, and asset management firms across the U.S., has launched a new ad campaign urging the Senate to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill designed to enable businesses to voluntarily and bilaterally share cyber threat information to protect consumers from cyber threats.

The Chinese government continues to target United States firms in an effort to steal intellectual property, despite the pact signed by the two countries last month, according to a report from threat intelligence firm CrowdStrike.

Facebook has announced a new measure meant to improve the security of user accounts, saying that it has begun notifying users on suspected account or system compromise.

Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe, and several private security firms have launched an operation aimed at the Dridex botnet, but the threat still appears to be active.

Adobe has released Flash Player updates to address the zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Russia-linked Pawn Storm threat group in attacks aimed at Foreign Affairs Ministries.

Microsoft this week announced the launch of a new transparency website aimed at offering access to various transparency reports published by the company.

Malaysian police have arrested a "terrorist hacker" wanted by Washington for allegedly stealing data related to more than a thousand US military and government personnel and providing the information to the Islamic State group.

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The developers of the Akismet plugin for WordPress have released an update to address a critical vulnerability that exposes websites to hacker attacks.

Researchers have spotted a Nuclear exploit kit attack in which new Flash Player exploits are automatically generated throughout the day in an effort to avoid detection.

Joe Weiss, founder of the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, and several leading experts were featured this week in PBS' NOVA. The full episode, CyberWar Threat, is embedded below.

Dozens of major websites including Netflix, Uber and the BBC went down simultaneously on Thursday in some areas of the United States, but were soon up again in most cases.

Yahoo on Thursday set out to make its free email service hip again with upgrades that included getting rid of the need for passwords on mobile devices. Yahoo's new email application allows users to sign-in without passwords, which have long been lambasted as paltry defense mechanisms by security specialists.

New research suggests that the number of governments using the controversial FinFisher spyware suite has increased.