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Last month the French TV network, TV5Monde, had 11 of its stations’ signals disrupted by an Islamist group. Its websites and social media pages were also defaced, but the biggest immediate impact was loss of advertising revenue during the blackout.

Breach detection solutions startup LightCyber has updated its flagship security platform with new features that enable higher levels of accuracy in finding attackers who have penetrated the defenses of enterprise networks.

Security firm Crowdstrike has revealed the existence of a serious vulnerability affecting several popular virtualization platforms.

APT28, the notorious cyber espionage group that is believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, is planning to attack various financial institutions from across the world, according to a report published on Tuesday by cybersecurity services and training provider root9B.

Firefox 38 was made available for download on Tuesday. Mozilla has addressed a total of 13 vulnerabilities in the latest version of its web browser, including five critical security bugs.

A new report from Proofpoint's Nexgate research team found that many Fortune 100 companies are not doing a good job of policing compliance violations tied to their social media accounts.

Today is the start of a busy time of patching courtesy of Microsoft and Adobe Systems.

Researchers at Incapsula have identified a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet made up of hijacked small office and home (SOHO) routers.

In the world of security, there is often a significant difference between perceived reality and what is actually happening. On a near daily basis we are inundated with stories about cyberattacks, and most people have no problem rattling off a list of companies that were compromised in the past year. However, it would be significantly more difficult for them to recall exactly how these organizations and their customers were impacted by these breaches.

A honeypot set up by a researcher for monitoring attacks against a serious Elasticsearch vulnerability recorded roughly 8,000 exploitation attempts over the course of two months.

With the release of the Edge web browser, Microsoft says it wants to fundamentally improve security in an effort to ensure that users are protected against sophisticated threats.

Windows 10 may be on the way, but many organizations are still stuck deep in the past when it comes to using versions of Microsoft's flagship operating system.

The US strategy of "deterrence" for cyber-attacks could involve a wide range or responses, potentially including the use of conventional weapons, the nation's top cyber-warrior said Monday.

The developers of the Angler exploit kit are trying to make it more difficult for researchers and advertising networks to track down the sources of a malvertising campaign.

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Apparently harmless document files that contain a malicious macro are commonly used by cybercriminals to distribute malware. However, malicious actors continue to improve their methods in an effort to evade detection.

Today, the average number of mobile apps accessed daily is more than double the average number of times an employee logs into legacy systems each day. Clearly, mobile adoption in the enterprise is not plateauing any time soon, nor is the threat associated with mobile.

The developers of MacKeeper, the controversial utility software suite for OS X, have patched a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code on affected systems.

The global terrorist threat has entered a "new phase," where media-savvy Islamist extremists are successfully drawing lone wolf attackers to their cause, the US secretary of Homeland Security warned Sunday. In an interview with ABC News, Jeh Johnson said the Islamic State group's influence was spreading far beyond the battlegrounds of the Middle East.

The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on the European country's engineering and technology giant Siemens, a German newspaper reported Sunday.