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Malicious firmware has been identified by researchers on Cisco routers. The malware implants allow attackers to maintain persistence in an organization’s network.

Researchers from anti-virus firm Dr.Web have discovered new malware designed to infect point-of-sale (PoS) terminals and capable of intercepting GET and POST requests sent from Web browsers on infected machines.

Mozilla’s web-based bug tracker Bugzilla is plagued by a critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to register accounts with apparently privileged email addresses and possibly gain access to sensitive bug information.

Dutch police revealed Thursday they have arrested two young hackers who infiltrated a type of malware known as "ransomware" to access thousands of computers worldwide, before demanding money to unlock the machines.

IT security solutions provider G DATA today announced the release of SECURE CHAT for Android, a multiple-encrypted SMS and chat communication application for users looking to keep their text-based communications private.

Apple on Wednesday released a series of software updates meant to add new capabilities to its products and to address vulnerabilities in many of them, including iOS, Mac OS X, iTunes and Xcode. 

Container technologies are becoming increasingly popular among IT decision makers lately, as they offer a means to deploy applications faster when compared to traditional methods. 

This is the time of year when students around the world head back to school. Many entering their final year of high school and those in college or at universities are thinking about courses of study that hold promising career opportunities, excitement, and challenge.

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testifies alongside CIA Director John Brennan, during a US House Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Sept. 10, 2015. The committee held the hearing to examine worldwide cyber threats. (Photo Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Emails, intellectual property, strategic planning documents, and other sensitive information has been stolen by a China-based threat group from the systems of defense contractors in the United States, according to a new report from Trend Micro.

iOS 9, the operating system that Apple is making available for download today to its mobile device users, comes with more than new usability and functionality features. It also resolves a vulnerability that can be exploited over Apple’s over-the-air file sharing technology, AirDrop.

A report released on Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General called for improved coordination between DHS agencies in order to meet cyber threats.

A malvertising campaign affecting the websites of several major companies went undetected for almost three weeks, according to antivirus firm Malwarebytes.

Open certificate authority (CA) Let's Encrypt this week announced the release of its first free digital certificate, taking the world one step closer to making HTTPS implementations easy and free for domain owners.

WordPress 4.3.1 is available for download. The latest version of the content management system (CMS) fixes three vulnerabilities and 26 bugs.

A Russian national accused of hacking payment systems of major retailers and the Nasdaq stock market, resulting in $300 million in losses, pleaded guilty Tuesday to US criminal charges.

A researcher has conducted experiments to test some of the most popular web application firewalls (WAF) and see how efficient they are in protecting against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

At NATO's annual cyber conference on Monday, Microsoft announced the signing of a Government Security Program (GSP) agreement with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), a new step in a 12-year cybersecurity relationship between the two.

“Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them” - Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I