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Cybercriminals are using stolen Apple credentials to lock iPhones, iPads and Macs and hold them for ransom. Most victims are located in Australia and New Zealand, but there have been reports of victims the United States as well.

Atos Aims at Becoming a Leader in Big Data, Cybersecurity and Cloud by Acquiring Bull

FireHost, a Dallas-based cloud hosting provider that has made security the focus of its offerings, announced on Tuesday that it has appointed retired U.S. Army Col. Jeff Schilling as the company's new chief security officer (CSO).

Distil Networks, an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of bot detection and mitigation solutions, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.

WASHINGTON - US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden "trained as a spy" and worked "undercover overseas" for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in excerpts of an interview aired Tuesday.

Thinking of changing the Windows registry to continue getting updates for Windows XP? Not so fast, Microsoft said.

US Hacker-FBI Informant Walks FreeNEW YORK - A hacker who directed hundreds of cyber attacks on corporations and foreign governments before turning FBI informant walked free Tuesday after being handed a symbolic seven-month sentence.

TEHRAN - An Iranian judge has summoned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his company's apps have breached people's privacy, it was reported Tuesday.

Security researchers from Bitdefender have warned that a new instant messaging Trojan has infected hundreds of computers all over the world.

By Penetrating the Browser, Man-in-the-Browser Malware Can See Virtually Everything that an End-user Can See

Researchers at IntelCrawler have pulled the covers away from a cybercrime operation that has compromised nearly 1,500 point-of-sale (PoS) terminals and other systems around the world. The firm calls the botnet 'Nemanja'. Composed of PoS terminals, accounting systems and grocery management platforms, the researchers said they discovered it earlier this year.

AVAST Software, the Czech Republic-based antivirus company, has shut down its community-support forum after suffering a data breach that affected roughly 400,000 users.

VirusTotal, the popular service that lets users analyze suspicious files and URLs to help facilitate the detection of malware, has launched a Mac OS X version of its VirusTotal Uploader utility.

WASHINGTON - With cybersecurity's most glaring failures in the limelight, many experts say it's time for a new approach.

In a motion submitted on Friday to the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York, the government recommended that Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. the hacker "Sabu," have his sentence greatly reduced as a result of his cooperation with authorities.

On Monday, representatives of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) confirmed that the organization’s FitzRoy supercomputer was targeted in a cyberattack last Thursday.

Security researchers from Trusteer have been monitoring a new Trojan which they’ve dubbed Zberp, and is a combination between Zeus and Carberp families of malware.

WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives passed landmark reforms Thursday curbing bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, the first step toward restricting intelligence-gathering by the National Security Agency since Edward Snowden divulged the secret program last year.

Security experts and eBay have confirmed that a recent user database being advertised on Pastebin was not obtained as a result of the data breach suffered by the online marketplace earlier this year.