SecurityWeek

Oracle released a security update with a whopping 98 fixes, including 17 for Oracle Fusion Middleware and 26 for Oracle MySQL.

Hackers bypassed insufficient safeguards to make off with data on 100,000 contacts held on French state TV computers, broadcasters said Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday and involved the theft of "a limited amount of personal data (names, postal and e-mail addresses and/or telephone numbers)," France Televisions said in a statement.

Researchers from security consultancy Bishop Fox have discovered a flaw in the popular Android app AirDroid that allows a remote attacker to secretly take control of a victim’s smartphone.

A report published on Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces some serious cybersecurity challenges due to its transition from legacy to next generation air transportation systems.

Docker Security: How Secure are Containers and Will Security be a Hurdle to Container Adoption?

Google announced on Tuesday the availability of Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest release addresses a total of 45 security issues and removes NPAPI support.

Cybersecurity startup Illumio announced on Tuesday that it has closed a massive $100 million Series C financing round, bringing the total raised by the company to more than $142 million in just over two years.

The US military is well equipped to defend the country against cyberattacks but is not yet ready to wage digital warfare, a senior defense official told lawmakers on Tuesday.

As user habits evolve, so do the tactics of attackers. It should come as little surprise then that as enterprises upgraded to newer versions of Windows in 2014, the amount of 64-bit Windows malware being used in attack campaigns increased as well.

Microsoft released 11 security bulletins today to address vulnerabilities in a number of products, including a critical Office bug being exploited in the wild.

San Jose, California-based Zscaler, a provider of cloud-based security solutions, unveiled a new cloud-based next-generation firewall that provides network security, application control and visibility from any location, with no on-premise hardware or software required.

HP has patched a vulnerability in the HP Support Solution Framework that can be exploited by a remote attacker to deliver arbitrary files and steal information from users’ systems.

Security research and product-testing firm NSS Labs announced today it has secured $7 Million in additional equity and debt funding.

AlienVault Launches Open Threat Exchange (OTX) 2.0 BetaUnified security management and threat intelligence solutions provider AlienVault today announced a beta version of Open Threat Exchange (OTX) 2.0.

Web application security firm WhiteHat Security on Tuesday said that Craig Hinkley has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company, taking over the position from company founder Jeremiah Grossman who took the role of interim CEO in February 2014.

High-Tech Bridge has spotted an interesting attack in which the threat actor used what researchers believe is a new vector for delivering malware to a targeted individual.

Washington is "aggressively" warning Beijing over the repercussions of its demand that US tech firms should hand over their encryption keys if they want to do business in China, a top US official said Tuesday.

Verizon on Tuesday released its widely anticipated 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a must read report compiled by Verizon with the support 70 contributing partners, which analyzed 79,790 security incidents and 2,122 confirmed data breaches across 61 different countries.

A 25-year-old individual has been arrested by law enforcement authorities on suspicion of being the developer of Svpeng, an Android Trojan used by cybercriminals to target online banking customers, Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Saturday.