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Disrupting a network is one thing; maintaining access and controlling computers is another.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro has been investigating a breach involving its payment card processing system since the US. Secret Service alerted the company of a possible compromise back on June 10, 2014.

All versions of Samba 4.x.x are affected by a vulnerability that could be exploited for remote code execution. Patches for this security hole were released on Friday.

Researchers at Trend Micro have analyzed a new Trojan that uses the Windows registry to hide all its malicious code, the security company reported on Friday.

BERLIN - Israel eavesdropped on US Secretary of State John Kerry during doomed peace talks with the Palestinians last year, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

Mozilla Exposes Email Addresses of 76,000 Developers and 4,000 Password Hashes

MOSCOU - Fugitive US intelligence agent Edward Snowden marked on Thursday one year of political asylum in Russia, where he continues to live a life shrouded in mystery amid a dearth of public appearances.

The security startup behind the Mitro password manager has been acquired by Twitter, the team at Mitro announced on Thursday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"Events in Ukraine this year, following on from the cyber attack on Estonia in 2007 and the invasion of Georgia by Russia in 2008, are a 'wake-up call' for NATO."

Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright recently stated that “the world is a mess.” And indeed it is. From Russia’s stoking of a war of insurrection in the Ukraine to the Israel-Hamas war to conflicts in Syria, Iraq and throughout much of the Middle East and North Africa, large swaths of the world are at war.

Researchers at FireEye have analyzed the operations of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed "Pitty Tiger," and determined that it might have been active since as far back as 2008.

Researchers Develop “BadUSB” to Demonstrate Extreme Threats Posed by USB DevicesUsers have long been warned about the dangers of using USB drives, but new research shows significant threats that stem from USB devices that go far beyond thumb drives.

Just as autoimmune diseases turn cells against the body, hackers are turning legitimate remote administration tools into weapons for breaching networks.

WASHINGTON - The head of the CIA has apologized to US lawmakers after an investigation confirmed claims that his officers had "improperly" accessed Senate computers, the agency said Thursday.

Microsoft announced on Thursday the general availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 5.0.

BitTorrent has provided additional details on Bleep, an encrypted voice and messaging application which, unlike similar solutions, doesn't rely on central servers.

While conducting penetration testing for one of its customers, Offensive Security uncovered three zero-day vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) that can be exploited for privilege escalation.

Israel-based threat detection firm Seculert has been monitoring the effects of the recent Gameover Zeus and Shylock botnet takedown operations, and found that the cybercriminals have already taken steps to resurrect their campaigns.