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Cybercriminals have compromised the website of an industrial company to conduct a watering hole attack with the goal to collect information on the site's visitors, according to a report.

Domain registrar and Web hosting company Namecheap is warning customers that cybercriminals have been trying to access their accounts by using credentials obtained from third party websites.

Europol announced on Monday the launch of a new taskforce with the mission to tackle cybercrime in the European Union and beyond.

LOS ANGELES - The FBI and Apple were urgently investigating Monday after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed a torrent of intimate pictures of dozens of celebrities across the Internet.

A new variant of the Bifrose backdoor has been used in a cyberattack aimed at an unnamed device manufacturer, Trend Micro reported.

LOS ANGELES - Scandal rocked both Hollywood and the US tech industry Monday after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed a torrent of intimate pictures of celebrities onto the Internet. Anonymous posters to online message boards boasted of having nude images of scores of female stars including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and top model Kate Upton.

Despite challenges with lack of resources and aging infrastructure, North Korea is committed to developing cyber warfare capabilities, according to a report published by HP last week.

A new variant of BlackPOS (Kaptoxa), a piece of RAM scraping malware designed to target point-of-sale (PoS) systems, has been spotted in the wild by researchers at Trend Micro.

A group of hackers possibly related to or a part of The Syrian Electronic Army have been spotted using a .NET-based malware tool to compromise targets around the world.

Apple has patched a flaw that may be linked to the leak of salacious celebrity photos on the Web.

Several vendors have joined forces with LogRhythm on a threat intelligence collective designed to provide customers with visibility and insight in order to help them detect sophisticated cyber threats.

WASHINGTON - The United States has launched a social media offensive against the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, setting out to win the war of ideas by ridiculing the militants with a mixture of blunt language and sarcasm.

Federal authorities in the United States are investigating reports of cyberattacks launched against JPMorgan Chase and at least one other unnamed financial institution.

Mozilla is warning users who have contributed to testing builds of the online bug-tracking tool Bugzilla that their email addresses and encrypted passwords were publicly available for a period of three months.

A large number of the wireless Internet connections in Brazil are exposed to man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks because they're not secured properly, a researcher has warned.

NEW YORK - Investigators were digging Thursday to find who initiated and what was taken in an apparent intense hacker effort this month to penetrate the systems of US banks including JPMorgan Chase.

Creative disruption, where a paradigm shift in thinking replaces an existing order, may be an elusive concept but its power as a driving force of human behavior cannot be denied.

On August 15th, 2014, the Washington Post published an article by Barton Gelman which revealed that a modified version of a network defense tool created by CloudShield Technologies was likely used by an unknown number of intelligence agencies outside the United States for offensive cyber and domestic surveillance operations.

Srizbi, once considered one of the most powerful botnets, is apparently trying to make a comeback with the aid of a new piece of malware, F-Secure reported.

Skyfence, a cloud security gateway startup acquired by Imperva earlier this year, announced on Tuesday the availability of a free tool designed to provide organizations visibility into cloud app usage and risks.