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Immobilise, the website of the United Kingdom’s National Property Register, was plagued until recently by a privacy flaw that could have been exploited to harvest information on millions of registered users, a researcher revealed on Monday.

Sony chief Kazuo Hirai on Monday spoke for the first time publicly about the cyber attack that derailed launch of controversial comedy "The Interview," calling the assault "vicious and malicious."

iSIGHT Partners, Inc., a provider of cyber threat intelligence services, announced on Monday that it has closed a $30 million Series C funding round with Bessemer Venture Partners.

Researchers at Microsoft are reporting a spike in the use of macros to spread malware via spam and social engineering.

Apple has reportedly patched a security hole exploited by a tool designed to hack accounts on Apple iCloud.

NEW YORK - US investment bank Morgan Stanley on Monday said it had fired an employee for stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of wealth management customers.

Silent Circle, which provides private encrypted communications solutions, today announced that F. William "Bill" Conner has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors effective immediately.

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IBM today released research and intelligence reports on data breaches in the retail sector and trends for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday period.According to the company, a total of more than 61 million retail records were stolen, lost or leaked in the United States last year, which is less than the over 70 million records compromised in 2013.

Two individuals suspected of being members of Lizard Squad, the hacker group that disrupted Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network on Christmas Day with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, were taken in for questioning last week by law enforcement authorities.

Google has published details and a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Windows 8.1.

The United States imposed new sanctions Friday on North Korea in retaliation for a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.

Officials at Chick-fil-A are investigating claims of a possible data breach impacting their customers.

Apple, Google, and Facebook are playing a game of high-stakes global brinksmanship around who has rights to control their data, which impacts their European growth prospects, business models, and ultimately stock valuations.

Data breaches, dangerous vulnerabilities and more dominated the headlines this year in cybersecurity.

Cybercriminals are repackaging legitimate HTML5 applications into Android malware and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), according to Trend Micro.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking for experienced and certified experts that could become cyber special agents, the agency announced on Monday.

Trend Micro researchers have come across a 64-bit version of Havex, a remote access tool (RAT) that has been used in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at industrial control systems (ICS).