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The education sector may have some tough lessons to learn when it comes to IT security.

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released software updates to address several high severity vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) products.

According to a recent survey of hundreds of IT security professionals, most organizations have significant security holes when it comes to protecting themselves against insider threats.

Security researchers have teamed up with the law enforcement community for another takedown of a malware network.

Researchers have conducted a detailed analysis of AlienSpy, a Java-based remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been used by malicious actors to target regular Internet users and enterprises worldwide.

The "unprecedented" cyber-attack on French television channel TV5Monde represents a major "step up" in the Internet warfare being waged by highly specialized jihadist hackers, experts said Thursday.

Hotel management company White Lodging Services said on Wednesday that hackers appear to have compromised point-of-sale (POS) systems at 10 of its hotel properties, resulting in exposure of customer payment data from July 3, 2014 to February 6, 2015.

Spring has arrived, so a baseball metaphor like “cover your bases” might be in order, but cybercriminals aren’t playing games. They’re attacking organizations with everything they’ve got. With that in mind, when recommending ways to detect and block zero-day attacks, the language of cyber-warfare seems more appropriate.

Updates released by Apple on Wednesday address numerous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, iOS, Safari and other products developed by the company.

French television network TV5Monde was forced to broadcast only pre-recorded programs Thursday after an "unprecedented" hack by self-proclaimed Islamic State militants, who also hijacked its websites and social networks.

An Austrian law graduate spearheading a class action case against Facebook for alleged privacy breaches officially filed the suit in a Vienna court on Thursday.

Linux Foundation to Host Let's Encrypt, Project to Bring Free SSL Certs to Websites

Activist groups on Wednesday unveiled a new coalition aimed at repealing the law authorizing mass surveillance by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Paris - French television network TV5Monde said Wednesday it had been hacked by individuals claiming to belong to the Islamic State group, bringing television broadcasts to a halt and taking over its websites and Facebook page.

Security researchers spotted a Google Chrome extension recently that may have leaked personal information belonging to more than a million users.

The White House said Wednesday it would not name those behind a cyber attack on official Washington targets last October, after reports blamed Russia."Our investigators have concluded that it's not in our best interest to identify the entity that may be responsible for this specific activity of concern," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

A vulnerability that can be leveraged for arbitrary code execution has been found in a tool used for integrating industrial IP surveillance solutions developed by Moxa, a Taiwan-based company that specializes in industrial networking, computing, and automation solutions.

Beirut - The US embassy in Beirut is supposed to reach out to Lebanon's residents, but scammers have reportedly taken advantage, impersonating the ambassador in a bid to solicit money. In an email and postings on social media on Wednesday, the embassy warned that messages seeking money, purportedly from ambassador David Hale, were the work of fraudsters.

Researchers warn that the Pinterest and Yammer social networking applications for iOS fail to validate server certificates, allowing malicious actors to eavesdrop on users’ communications. New versions of the apps have been released to address the issue.

A little something old, a little something new – according to security firm Websense, those words could very well be the battle cry of today's attackers.