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Malware that leverages a computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU) made headlines earlier this year when researchers developed several experimental threats designed to use the GPU for enhanced stealthiness. However, experts from Intel Security believe such malware still leaves traces that can be picked up by endpoint protection solutions.

Researchers have uncovered a new malware family designed to target devices running Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The threat has already been used to compromise more than 225,000 Apple accounts.

Ashley Madison, the embattled website catering to affair-seeking clients, on Monday rejected predictions that it will soon be forced to shutter its operations, saying its troubles have been "greatly exaggerated."

Anyone who reads the news has probably sensed that breaches and hacking are on the rise. Breaches are constantly in the news whether in the form of sensational attacks against the likes of Ashley Madison or potentially more serious and far-reaching attacks such as those against Anthem Healthcare or the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Researchers at IBM have come across a new piece of malware designed to steal sensitive information from infected computers.

The United States is considering economic sanctions against Chinese firms and individuals that profited from cyber attacks on American targets, a senior administration official said Monday.

FireHost, the Dallas-based cloud-hosting provider that has made security the focus of its business, announced on Monday that it is has rebranded as Armor.

Smartsheet has patched a serious vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack user accounts. The company says the flaw has not been exploited in the wild.

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, famous hardware hackers who recently demonstrated that some Fiat Chrysler cars can be remotely hijacked, have been hired by ride-hailing giant Uber.

A jihadist hacker who was killed this week in a US air strike in Syria was actively recruiting Islamic State sympathizers to carry out lone wolf attacks in the west, the Pentagon said Friday. Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the US Central Command, said Junaid Hussain was specifically targeted in an air strike that killed him August 24 in Raqqa, Syria.

Six individuals have been arrested by British law enforcement as part of an operation targeting those who have used the Lizard Squad’s LizardStresser distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) tool.

A US appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records was illegal, saying the plaintiffs failed to show they were victims. A lower court, in a preliminary 2013 ruling, said the NSA program was probably unconstitutional and "almost Orwellian."

The chief executive of dating for adulterers website Ashley Madison stepped down on Friday after hackers leaked its membership list online.

In John Lennon’s final interview he said, “The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”

Researchers have uncovered several serious vulnerabilities in industrial ethernet switches developed by Moxa, a Taiwan-based provider of industrial networking, computing and automation solutions.

BitTorrent published a couple of blog posts on Thursday to detail the steps taken to prevent its products from being abused for distributed reflective denial-of-service (DRDoS) attacks.

Mozilla updated Firefox to version 40.0.3 on Thursday to address a couple of serious vulnerabilities.

Adobe has released a hotfix to address an important vulnerability in the company’s ColdFusion development platform.

The United States is confident of having killed a top Islamic State cyber hacker and recruiter in a drone strike in Syria this week, US authorities said Thursday. Junaid Hussain was a British-born hacker and IS propagandist who reputedly was part of a group called the Cyber Caliphate.

Instrumentation and process automation company Endress+Hauser has patched a vulnerability affecting many of its field instruments.