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Compliance may be a key focus of the healthcare industry, but that hasn't always translated into secure environments.

Hackers launched a new attack Monday against the Belgian media group Rossel, targeting the websites of newspapers in Belgium and France, its managing director told AFP. The group was subject Sunday to a major cyber attack, which blocked access for several hours to the websites of the Belgian daily Le Soir and the French regional newspaper La Voix du Nord.

"Re-Direct to SMB" Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Access to Login Credentials Researchers from security firm Cylance have disclosed a security flaw which impacts all versions of Windows, including the upcoming Windows 10, as well as products from major software makers such as Adobe, Apple, Oracle, and Symantec.

“Great Cannon” Is the Tool Used by China to Launch DDoS Attacks on GitHub and GreatFire

Norse, a provider cyber threat intelligence solutions, today introduced a new intelligence service that leverages a combination of automated and human threat monitoring and analysis to help enterprise security teams detect compromised systems and malicious activity.

Security vendor FireMon has acquired Immediate Insight with an eye towards bolstering its network security intelligence capabilities with real-time security event analysis.

Facebook has decided not to reward a researcher who has identified a vulnerability in one of the software components used on the official blog of Onavo, a mobile data analytics company acquired by the social media giant in 2013.

Cyber attacks against supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems doubled in 2014, according to Dell’s annual threat report, released Monday.

Keeping pace with the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks can often seem like a Sisyphean task. Attackers have a constantly evolving arsenal of malware and tools at their disposal, a broad attack surface to target and often only need to succeed in infecting a single victim in order to compromise an entire network. While attackers may appear to have the advantage, the problem is not intractable.

Singapore - Global police organization Interpol on Monday formally opened a new office in Singapore that will provide additional support to law enforcers and boost the fight against Internet-based criminal activities.

More than a dozen command and control (C&C) servers used by the Simda botnet were seized last week by law enforcement authorities coordinated by Interpol.

Brussels - Hackers attacked one of Belgium's top newspaper publishers on Sunday just days after Tunisian Islamist militants took control of a regional government portal to denounce US counter-terror operations.

Niara, a security analytics company currently operating in stealth mode, has closed a $20 million Series B financing round led by Venrock, with additional participants including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Index Ventures.

FireEye on Sunday uncovered details of a decade-long cyber espionage campaign carried out by China targeting governments, journalists and businesses in South East Asia and India.

French TV5Monde television channel, which suffered a major hack by self-proclaimed Islamic State militants this week, on Friday admitted an Internet security 'blunder' Thursday during a program discussing the cyber-attack.

Researchers have identified three vulnerabilities in Siemens’ SIMATIC HMI devices. The German engineering giant has started releasing software updates to address the security holes in affected products.

In early October 2014, a researcher discovered a serious privilege escalation vulnerability in Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. The flaw, which has been around since at least 2011, has been finally fixed by the company.

Open source software management firm Black Duck Software has launched a new solution that helps security and development teams find and remediate security vulnerabilities in open source software.

Cisco’s Talos research group and Level 3 Communications have joined forces in an effort to disrupt the activities of a malicious actor that has been using Secure Shell (SSH) brute force attacks to distribute a sophisticated Linux DDoS bot.

The cyberattack conducted by pro-Islamic State hackers against the French TV station TV5Monde appears to have involved a piece of malware known as Kjw0rm, researchers at Blue Coat reported on Thursday.