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After being notified by researchers at Sucuri, the developers of the Akeeba backup extension for Joomla fixed a vulnerability that can be leveraged to gain access to website backups.

Small and medium companies in the European automobile sector have been targeted by cybercriminals using a relatively new piece of malware, according to a recent report.

Sony on Sunday said that some of its online services were hit by a DDoS attack by a hacker group, while another group threatened that a plane carrying a company executive was carrying a bomb.

MANILA - Philippine police arrested eight suspects and are hunting more in connection with an Internet extortion racket that has victimized hundreds of people in Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau, an official said Saturday.

The United States Secret Service estimated more than 1,000 businesses have been infected by the "Backoff" point-of-sale malware, and many of them are unaware they have been compromised, according to a Department of Homeland Security advisory.

A group of hackers presumably located in China managed to breach Community Health Systems, one of the largest hospital operators in the United States, and access the records of 4.5 million patients.

Spam is highly problematic on Twitter, which is why the social media network has developed a system that helps its efforts to keep users' feeds free of unsolicited or malicious posts.

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Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a security hole that can be exploited to launch phishing attacks against users who make payments from their Android mobile devices.

Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside have developed a new attack method that can be used to obtain sensitive information from applications running on Android and likely other operating systems.

The days when the Black Hat USA and Defcon conferences are ongoing are two times when surfing the Internet in Las Vegas can be a gamble all on its own. According to Imperva, there was a spike in malicious activity emanating from Sin City two weeks ago when the conferences were under way.

Technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) soared by 57% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2014 and IT security has played an important role in this trend, according to professional services firm Ernst & Young.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released today draft guidelines for addressing the security risks posed by the use of Secure Shell (SSH) for automated access.

An analysis of free applications in the Google Play app store found many popular Android apps had SSL vulnerabilities that left them susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks (MITM).

A recent study conducted by iSEC Partners provided the developers of the Tor Browser Bundle with several long and short-term recommendations on how to make the application more secure.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comments on a guide designed to help organizations determine potential security and privacy risks posed by third-party mobile applications before putting them to use.

Cybercrooks are not ready to give up on fake anti-virus attacks just yet and they're even coming up with new methods to trick victims into paying up.

Attackers are playing on the hype around the crypto-currency Bitcoin to cast a wider phishing net looking for victims. It's not just bank credentials cyber-criminals are looking for.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Wednesday awarded a $50,000 Internet Defense Prize to a pair of German researchers with a seemingly viable approach to detecting vulnerabilities in Web applications.