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The United States is at the top of the list of countries with the most infections of point-of-sale (PoS) malware during the third quarter of the year, according to research from Trend Micro.

WASHINGTON - The FBI said Tuesday it was investigating a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, amid reports that employee information as well as new films were being leaked online.

EMC Corporation has surveyed 3,300 IT decision makers from across 24 countries in an effort to determine how well organizations are prepared to deal with incidents resulting in downtime and data loss.

The world relies on SSL. It has become the de facto encryption protocol not just for Internet commerce, but commerce in the real world, as well (Uber, Airbnb).

Budget is Not a Metric, But Rather a Means to Address Operational Security Requirements

Researchers have sinkholed the command and control (C&C) domains used by the CryptoPHP malware and determined that tens of thousands of websites have been affected.

The developers of OpenVPN have released a new version of the open-source virtual private network software to address a critical denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that can be exploited to cause servers to crash.

Mozilla released Firefox 34 on Monday and, as it promised in October, the company disabled Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 support to protect users against Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attacks.

Security researcher Billy Rios has created a database of hundreds of thousands of "known-good" files from makers of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control system (ICS) software.

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the management interface of the Alcatel-Lucent 1830 Photonic Service Switch, but the vendor doesn't plan on fixing it any time soon.

WASHINGTON - US authorities have warned troops to avoid drawing attention to their military ties on their social media accounts, ABC news reported Monday.

Researchers at FireEye have issued a report on an attack group targeting C-level executives to get insider information that could be used to gain an advantage in the stock market.

Researchers at Trend Micro have come across a sample of a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware that appears to be under development.

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published a framework designed to help government officials and policy practitioners evaluate National Cyber Security Strategies (NCSS).

Intel announced on Monday that it has acquired PasswordBox, a Montreal-based identity management service that enables users to log into websites and applications without having to type or remember passwords.

WASHINGTON - Sony Pictures Entertainment is looking into whether North Korea may have been behind a major cyberattack on the studio last week, a news website reported.

After the number of major breaches affecting some of the largest retailers this year, some may feel uneasy as they approach the cashier to pay for their purchases. Now consumers have another place to worry about--parking garages.

International law enforcement agencies today announced the results of a two-day operation targeting individuals who purchase plane tickets using stolen or fake payment card data.