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In a broad agency announcement published last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) informed researchers that it is looking for innovative proposals in the area of software obfuscation.

The public-facing segments of federal civilian agency networks will be regularly and proactively scanned by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an effort to speed up the response to cyber threats and vulnerabilities.

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Apple has updated its XProtect security feature to block malware an antivirus firm found had compromised thousands of Mac computers.

HONG KONG - Hong Kong police on Monday said they had arrested five people over hacking allegations, days after the online "hacktivist" group Anonymous declared a cyber-war against the southern Chinese city.

Marriott Claims it Jammed Wi-Fi Hotspots to Protect Customers Against Threats Posed by Rogue Wireless Networks.

Anyone who can offer information that leads to the arrest of a cyber fugitive accused of stealing identities and using them to siphon funds from bank and brokerage accounts will be rewarded with up to $5,000, the FBI announced on Thursday.

In a two-year study of information about critical control systems directly connected to the Internet, researchers found mining equipment, a surprising number of wind farms, a crematorium, water utilities, and several substations.

SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard is poised to become the latest technology firm to split into two entities by separating its computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operation, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

WASHINGTON - China is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States which costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sunday.

NEW YORK - US states are investigating a cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase that stole customer information, it emerged Friday, a day after the big bank revealed the massive scope of the breach.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the largest bank in the United States by assets, revealed on Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that data on roughly 76 million households and 7 million small businesses was compromised in the breach disclosed this summer.

The war of words escalated this week between Palo Alto Networks and independent testing firm NSS Labs over the latest group test on next-generation firewalls.

A Same Origin Policy (SOP) bypass vulnerability has been identified in the Android browser installed by default on versions of the operating system prior to 4.4, a researcher revealed on Thursday.

Researchers at Russian security firm Dr. Web have come across a new piece of malware which has already infected thousands of Mac OS X devices.

Several universities in the United Kingdom have set out to conduct new research into the cyber security of the country's vital industrial control systems (ICS), thanks to significant new funding.

Two researchers have released attack code for the 'BadUSB' issue first revealed at the Black Hat conference earlier this summer.

NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase said Thursday that information such as names and addresses for 76 million household customers and seven million businesses was compromised in a data breach this summer.

When Community Health Systems revealed it had been breached earlier this year, a spotlight was placed on cybersecurity in the healthcare industry, and the diagnosis was not good.