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The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published a new report on online privacy and data protection.The agency believes the key to protecting privacy, which has been declared a fundamental right, is to focus on privacy and data protection from the beginning of the design process.

Private equity investment firm Inverness Graham said on Wednesday that it has acquired enterprise data management software maker

President Obama has outlined a series of data security and privacy proposals in the latest sign the White House and Congress are gearing up to take legislative action on information protection.

Mozilla released Firefox 35 on Tuesday. In addition to new features, changes and fixes, the latest version of the popular Web browser addresses several critical vulnerabilities.

A new toolkit discovered late last year by researchers at IBM Trusteer allows even less skilled cybercriminals to steal online banking credentials and abuse them for fraudulent transactions.

2014 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for cyber attacks.

Adobe released updates for Flash Player on Tuesday to address a total of 9 critical vulnerabilities, many of which can be exploited for arbitrary code execution.

IBM on Tuesday took the covers off its z13 mainframe, what it says is one of the most sophisticated computer systems ever built, and designed to deliver massive scalability together with real-time encryption and analytics to help support the demands of the mobile economy.

New York - The alleged mastermind of a vast online, global criminal enterprise that sold $200 million worth of drugs to customers all over the world went on trial in New York on Tuesday.

In its first Patch Tuesday of the year, Microsoft released one critical security bulletin and seven others rated 'important.'

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has published a new report calling for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the General Services Administration (GSA) to better secure building and access control systems from cyber threats.

Australia and New Zealand are increasingly targeted with ransomware that’s designed to encrypt files and hold them for ransom, researchers at Trend Micro reported.File-encrypting ransomware has become highly popular among cybercriminals because it can help them make a lot of money with small effort.

British prime minister David Cameron on Monday announced that if he’s re-elected in May, he plans on introducing a comprehensive piece of legislation that would ban encrypted online communications that cannot be accessed by authorities.

Siemens issued a security advisory on Tuesday to alert users of its SIMATIC WinCC Sm@rtClient App for iOS of multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

President Barack Obama made a renewed push Tuesday for cybersecurity legislation, asking the new Congress to revive an initiative stalled over the past few years.

Google published the details of a new privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows just as Microsoft was preparing to patch it.The security hole was reported to Microsoft by Google’s Project Zero initiative in October, and the details of the bug were automatically made available to the public on January 11, after a 90 day disclosure deadline.

Sometimes, it seems that talk of “big data”, “security analytics”, and “big data security analytics” is everywhere. I can’t recall the last security conference, professional meeting, or industry event I attended where the topic didn’t come up at least once. In some cases, the topic can even dominate the discourse within a particular forum.

Vulnerabilities found in WebView and possibly other components included in old versions of the Android operating system will no longer be patched by Google, researchers have learned.

Researchers at Core Security have released details of unpatched vulnerabilities impacting a slew of products from Corel Software.

Researchers at Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have discovered malware that sidesteps authentication on Active Directory (AD) systems protected only by passwords.