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Unknown hackers hijacked the official Facebook page of the Wall Street Journal on Sunday and posted bogus headlines.

It seems to be in the news more and more: hackers penetrating point-of-sale (PoS) terminals at major retailers and making off with credit and debit card information.

Ever since its existence came to light in November 2013, the Neverquest banking Trojan has been enhanced with new features that make it an efficient tool for cybercriminals that are after sensitive information.

Nearly half of the IT professionals surveyed recently by Waratek, a company focused on security and management of Java enterprise applications, believe that the Java applications used by their organizations are vulnerable.

An in-depth analysis of a recently discovered piece of malware that's designed to target Linux and Unix Web servers has been published on Thursday by Virus Bulletin.

Software developer vBulletin announced on Wednesday that it had released a patch to address a serious SQL injection vulnerability affecting the its forum software.

Security researchers believe cybercriminals may be taking a page from government agencies when it comes to malware. According to Sentinel Labs, that metaphorical page has the name of a piece of malware known as 'Gyges' scribbled on it, as well as a list of capabilities normally associated with malware linked to cyber-espionage. The malware appears to originate from Russia, and is believed to have been designed to target government organizations.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is accelerating, creating significant opportunities for organizations, individuals, communities, and countries as more things come online – along with the people, processes, and data that interact with them. Building on the foundation of the Internet of Things, or IoT, that refers to the connection of physical objects only and doesn’t include people and processes, the IoE presents new challenges, particularly when it comes to cybersecurity.

NEW YORK - Microsoft said Thursday it would slash 18,000 jobs from its global workforce over the next year, the majority from the integration of the Nokia unit acquired this year.

An international cybercrime operation that targeted money transfer services throughout Europe was taken down this week in a joint operation involving law enforcement agencies in Europe.

A new variant of the PushDo malware has already been distributed to tens of thousands of computers across the globe, researchers from Bitdefender reported.

Several Cisco cable modems and wireless residential gateways are plagued by a vulnerability that can be exploited for remote code execution, the company said on Wednesday.

These days the mobile fleet in most organization breaks down into three categories: corporate-owned devices, shared corporate-owned devices (tablets for events, point of sale, or for QA testing and field services teams that take them to service calls), and BYOD devices.

An Estonian national who admitted stealing personal information and creating fake identification documents has been sentenced to prison, the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Wednesday.

USTelecom, a trade association representing service providers and suppliers in the telecom industry, has warned consumers about an increase in the number of scams that rely on caller ID spoofing.

Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Conducts Hearing on Botnets and Cybercrime

A report released this week by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stated it needs to increase its staff of cryptography experts and work to increase transparency.

GENEVA - Fugitive US intelligence agent Edward Snowden deserves shielding from prosecution for having thrown the spotlight on state snooping, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said Wednesday. "Those who disclose human rights violations should be protected. We need them," Pillay told reporters.

The Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) at managed security services provider Solutionary has published its threat intelligence report for the second quarter of 2014.

The first half of the year has been a busy one when it comes to battling distributed denial-of-service attacks.