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The United States and China have agreed not to conduct or condone cyber attacks on each other's private sector for commercial gain, US President Barack Obama and his counterpart Xi Jinping said Friday. "I indicated it has to stop," Obama said at a joint news conference at the White House after a morning of summit negotiations.

Yahoo! has released a large scale web security scanning platform aimed at improving the safety of the Web. 

BlackBerry announced plans Friday to sell an Android-powered smartphone, in the latest reboot effort from the faded star of the sector. The Canadian firm said it would begin selling "Priv," described as "a flagship handheld device that will run on the Android operating system with BlackBerry security," expected to be available later this year.

XcodeGhost, a piece of malware designed to target Apple users, has made a lot of headlines recently after researchers reported finding thousands of infected iOS applications.

Researchers have discovered a new piece of malware designed to target ATMs and allow malicious actors to quickly empty a machine’s cash vault.Stealing payment cards or card data can be lucrative for cybercriminals, but walking up to an ATM and commanding it to hand over all the money in its cash vault is much more profitable.

For many successful enterprises around the world, consultancy and advisory usage plays an important role in helping companies plan and execute, as well as overcome critical business challenges.

Splunk, a provider of software that helps organizations gather and make use of machine data from a various sources, this week released Splunk Enterprise Security 4.0 (formerly Splunk App for Enterprise Security) and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) security solutions.

Commoditization of Mature Security Technologies Reduces Overall Market Forecast for 2015High-profile data breaches and ever increasing cyber threats are expected to drive global information security spending above the $75.4 billion mark in 2015, according to Gartner.

ICS-CERT published advisories this week for a series of vulnerabilities affecting SCADA products from Resource Data Management, IBC Solar and EasyIO.The flaws detailed in ICS-CERT’s advisories were discovered and reported by security researcher Maxim Rupp.

Cyber Theft a 'Serious' IssuePresident Barack Obama offered Xi Jinping a warm welcome at the White House Thursday, greeting his Chinese counterpart with a "ni hao," or hello, at the start of a tricky state visit.

The Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF), a collaborative initiative aimed at addressing concerns regarding the security of IoT, launched publicly in London this week.

Security software can considerably increase exposure to targeted attacks, according to Google information security engineer Tavis Ormandy.

Cyber threat intelligence companies ThreatConnect and Defense Group released on Thursday a joint report linking the advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as “Naikon” to a unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Last week the freedom warrior Let’s Encrypt project released its root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate.

Automated attack detection and analytics firm Seculert this week announced that Richard Greene has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Office, replacing Co-Founder Dudi Matot, who will remain with the company as President.

Cisco has released patches to address several vulnerabilities affecting the IOS and IOS XE software running on many of the company’s routers and switches.

Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Washington Thursday for summit talks with Barack Obama having made clear that few compromises are in store on hot-button issues like cyber theft and the South China Sea.

A major data-sharing deal between the EU and US is 'invalid' given the spying revelations in the Edward Snowden scandal, the top EU court's main legal advisor said Wednesday in a case brought against Facebook. The case stems from a complaint against Facebook lodged at Ireland's data protection authority by Austrian right-to-privacy activist and law student Max Schrems.

Imgur has patched a serious vulnerability that allowed attackers to attach malicious code to files uploaded to the image sharing service. Attackers have leveraged the flaw to launch sort of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the imageboard website 8chan.

The massive breaches of US government records resulted in the theft of some 5.6 million sets of fingerprints, officials said Wednesday, raising their estimate from 1.1 million.