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Despite increased investments in preventive security measures, many organizations are losing the war against cyber criminals.The data breaches at Target, Home Depot, Staples, Michaels, Kmart, eBay, Anthem, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, were just the tip of the iceberg.

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel), said on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chicago-based data security and compliance solutions firm Trustwave or $810 million in cash.

Ever wonder how quickly stolen data is accessed once it hits the Dark Web? Researchers at Bitglass decided to find out.

Mozilla has disabled the opportunistic encryption feature in its Firefox browser after a flaw was discovered in the browser's implementation of HTTP Alternative Services.

Cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure companies have long since moved out of the realm of science fiction and into reality, and a new report from Trend Micro and the Organization of the American States (OAS) shows just how much.

iSIGHT Partners, a provider of cyber threat intelligence services, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Idaho-based Critical Intelligence, a provider of threat intelligence for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) owners and operators.

Early Warning, a provider of fraud prevention and risk management solutions, said on Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Authentify Inc., a provider of phone-based, multi-factor authentication solutions.

Security intelligence and analytics solutions provider Endgame, Inc. on Tuesday announced the launch of its enterprise endpoint detection and response platform, Endgame Enterprise.

Every time we go through one of these panic-patch cycles – think Heartbleed and Shellshock – the security industry laments about difficultly of the whole process.

Organizations appear to be getting better at understanding the security implications of moving to the cloud through their review processes, according to a new report.

The United States is "deeply concerned" by some of China's behavior but the top world powers do not need to be adversaries, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Monday as he prepared to head to Asia for key talks with regional allies.

My Cyber Diary: Key Observations from the Last Few Years in the Cybersecurity Marketplace Cybersecurity issues have become front page news virtually every week - breaches, fraud, theft and a whole host of other cyber crime events read like the police blotter from a large metropolitan city where criminals run rampant.

Norse, a provider cyber threat intelligence solutions, today introduced a new version of its threat intelligence appliance which can actively monitor inbound and outbound network traffic at up to 10 gigabits-per-second.

Americans might oppose intrusive surveillance if they realized the government can see their most intimate emailed pictures, comic John Oliver suggested to fugitive intelligence technician Edward Snowden.

A serious security flaw in BitTorrent Sync can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, according to an advisory published over the weekend by HP’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

Linux Australia revealed over the weekend that one of its servers was breached on March 22. The personal details of conference attendees might have been compromised in the incident.

A vulnerability discovered in Schneider Electric’s VAMPSET software can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on affected systems, ICS-CERT reported last week.The VAMPSET software is a setting and configuration tool for Vamp protection relays, the Vamp 321 arc flash protection unit, and measuring and monitoring units.

Whoops! Google on Saturday let a digital certificate expire that was used to secure its smtp.google.com domain, the domain used by Gmail and Google Apps users to send outgoing email.