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Adobe announced on Monday night that the Adobe Reader and Acrobat security updates originally set to be released today, have been delayed until next week due to some problems that need to be addressed before being released to the public.

Cybercriminals have been serving malicious advertisements on several high-profile websites in an effort to push shady software onto the computers of their visitors, regardless if they are Windows or OS X users, Cisco reported on Monday.

After days of speculation, Home Depot has confirmed it was victimized in a data breach that compromised credit and debit cards at stores throughout the United States and Canada.

Researchers at Symantec spotted a phishing campaign targeting Apple IDs in the days after it was discovered a number of celebrities had their accounts compromised.

The official website of an important Israeli think tank has been compromised and abused to distribute a piece of malware, security firm Cyphort reported on Friday.

Cloud information security company CloudLock has launched a new solution designed to detect, classify and secure sensitive data stored in Google Drive in near real-time.

The blogosphere was atwitter last week with scintillating details about nude selfies and what you should and shouldn’t be doing with your phone. Blame has been assigned all around, from criticizing the exposed celebrities for being entirely too truthful with password reset answers to pointing the fingers at Apple for not doing more to protect data in the cloud.

A Windows backdoor used in numerous attacks by a certain threat actor group has been ported to Mac OS X and fitted with new features, researchers at FireEye reported.

U.S. law enforcement authorities claim to have leveraged a leaky CAPTCHA on the login page of Silk Road to identify the real IP address of the server hosting the website, according to court documents filed on Friday by the prosecution.

In an advisory sent to Salesforce Account administrators late Friday, the largest provider of cloud-based CRM solutions warned that its customers are being targeted by key-logging malware known as Dyre.

WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has released two memos detailing the Bush administration's legal justification for monitoring the phone calls and emails of Americans without a warrant. The documents, released late Friday, relate to a secret program dubbed Stellar Wind that began after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Early this week, news broke that Hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to the iCloud accounts of several celebrities. After getting access to the accounts, the attacker(s) leaked numerous private photos, including several nude and intimate photos. Law enforcement authorities are investigating the incident with Apple.

Mac Security Products Tested and Reviewed by Leading Testing LabsTwo well known independent antivirus testing labs have published the results of tests performed on security products designed for devices running Mac OS X operating systems.

Cybercriminals managed to breach one of the servers used for HealthCare.gov, the official website of the United States' health insurance marketplace, federal officials reported on Thursday.

Chinese authorities want to keep tabs on the users of an education and research network so they have started intercepting encrypted traffic to and from Google's servers, an organization that monitors online censorship in China reported on Thursday.

I have regular conversations with Derek Byrum, the chief data scientist at our company, where I ask him “what’s jumping out at you?” as far as cyber trends go in a particular industry sector. You see, Derek is in a unique position via his role presiding over a large-scale, analytic cybercrime data warehouse. He continually analyzes our industry-driven cyber data and identifies outliers, impact concentrations, novelty, fast-risers, nascent trends and other “birds-eye” observations.

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is ramping up iCloud defenses in the aftermath of hackers swiping nude photos of celebrities from the online digital vault, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Thursday began rolling out its "privacy checkup" aimed at helping users of the huge social network better manage sharing their information and postings. The new system uses a blue dinosaur to guide Facebook users through its maze of privacy settings for personal information and for sharing their posts.

Attackers have broadened both the capabilities and targets of malware first spotted primarily targeting financial institutions in Japan.

Microsoft is set to release four security bulletins next Tuesday covering issues in Windows, Internet Explorer and other products. Only one of the bulletins - the one dealing with Internet Explorer - is rated 'Critical.' The other three are classified by Microsoft as 'Important.'