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A team of researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering say they have found a way to help organizations better protect passwords.

A new study published by HP on Tuesday reveals that 70% of the most popular Internet of Things (IoT) devices contain serious vulnerabilities.

A security researcher has released details of an issue affecting the Instagram application for iOS devices that exposes users to hackers launching man-in-the-middle attacks.

Only 3 percent of external-facing servers in the world's largest companies have been fully protected from the Heartbleed vulnerability, researchers found.

Several of the most popular antivirus products contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited locally or remotely, a security researcher revealed at the SyScan 360 security conference in Beijing earlier this month.

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Chinese threat actors recently hacked into the computer networks of the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada, the CIO of the Canadian government said on Tuesday.

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SHANGHAI - China is investigating Microsoft for allegedly operating a monopoly in its market, the government said Tuesday, as it took aim at the US software giant over business practices. The move makes the company the latest foreign firm to face Beijing's scrutiny, in fields ranging from computing to baby milk.

A serious vulnerability exists in the Android operating system, which could allow malicious apps to impersonate well-known trusted apps such as Google Wallet, researchers said.

Secure embedded L4 (seL4), said to be the world's most highly-assured operating system, has been released as open source, Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA) and U.S. aerospace and defense company General Dynamics C4 Systems announced on Tuesday.

Whoever is behind the development of the Neverquest (Snifula) Trojan has been busy.

Cloud services provided by Amazon and other companies are being abused by profit-driven cybercriminals to host DDoS bots, Kaspersky Lab reported on Friday.

Russia is looking for hackers to help take down the anonymity of the Tor network.

NEW YORK - Microsoft said Monday it was under investigation by antitrust authorities in China, pledging to cooperate in the investigation. "We aim to build products that deliver the features, security and reliability customers expect, and we will address any concerns the government may have," Microsoft said in an emailed statement.

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The rating given by Uber drivers to their passengers could have been accessed until a few hours ago by simply pasting a piece of JavaScript code into a Web browser's console.

WASHINGTON - Large-scale surveillance by the US government has begun to have an impact on press freedom and broader democratic rights, a study released Monday showed.

BEIJING - Officials from China's corporate regulator paid visits Monday to software giant Microsoft's offices in four cities in the country, Dow Jones Newswires reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Kaspersky Lab has published a new research paper on Koler, the "police" ransomware that has been targeting Android users since April.