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The FBI reportedly sent a warning to healthcare providers that weak cyber security practices are leaving the industry exposed to attacks.

Mozilla has announced a new bug rewards program for security researchers that find flaws in the new certificate verification library it plans to use in the upcoming Firefox 31 release.

WASHINGTON - A hacker who became an informant for the FBI directed hundreds of cyber attacks against the websites of foreign governments, including Brazil, Iran, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Technology Giants Aim to Secure Critical Open Source Projects Through ‘Core Infrastructure Initiative’ via The Linux FoundationIndustry heavyweights including Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Cisco are banding together to support and fund open source projects that make up critical elements of global information infrastructure.

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Rapid7, a provider of security risk and penetration testing solutions, this week announced that it has launched certification programs for users of Nexpose and Metasploit Pro.

New research has found the majority of malicious bot traffic last year emanated from the United States and circulated the Web the most when many IT staffers are headed home.

Insurance giant American International Group (AIG) announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its cyber insurance offering to include property damage and bodily injury that could be caused as a result of cyber attacks.

SAO PAULO - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff took aim at US dominance of the Internet Wednesday, appealing at an international meeting for global governance that would give no state greater weight than others.

Apple customers may find themselves busy this week applying patches issued by the company across a number of products.

Following the disclosure of the significant Heartbleed vulnerability that rocked the technology world, new research from FireEye shows yet another example that the impact of the security flaw goes far beyond traditional Web servers using SSL.

“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” – Tom Fleming

SAO PAULO - Brazil's Congress on Tuesday passed comprehensive legislation on Internet privacy in what some have likened to a web-user's bill of rights, after stunning revelations its own president was targeted by US cyber-snooping.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced on Monday that it has removed the Dual_EC_DRBG, or Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator from its draft guidance on random number generators.

The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks jumped significantly in 2013, and dealing with them was not cheap, according to a new report from Neustar.

GENEVA - Organizations must dramatically improve their response to cyber risks to avoid a new global shock on the scale of the financial crisis that rocked the world in 2008, a study showed Tuesday.

The cloud is proving to be less of an escape from the security problems facing enterprises in on-premise environments, according to a new report from Alert Logic.

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Networking giant Cisco Systems has announced a new managed security solution that applies real-time, predictive analytics to detect attacks and protect customers from advanced malware across their extended networks.