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The U.K. government’s cybersecurity agency has announced plans to ship a collection of well-tested, reliable scanning scripts to help defenders find and fix high-priority software security vulnerabilities.

PrinterLogic has released security updates to address a total of nine vulnerabilities in Web Stack and Virtual Appliance, including three security defects that carry "high severity" ratings.

Security operations center (SOC) platform provider Hunters on Tuesday announced raising another $68 million, which brings the total investment secured by the firm to $118 million.

California-based Revelstoke on Tuesday emerged from stealth mode with a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform designed to help organizations customize and automate their security operations center (SOC).

Retailers have recently experienced a significant increase in the theft of goods from their physical locations.

This is not the first time lawmakers have been unhappy with the pace of progress under Biden

Application security startup ArmorCode today announced that it has received $8 million in additional seed funding, which brings the total raised by the company to $11 million.The funding round was led by Cervin Ventures and received participation from Sierra Ventures, Tau Ventures, and founders of Demisto and RedLock.

Canada's foreign ministry was hit by a cyberattack last week that is still preventing diplomats from accessing certain online services, federal cyber security agencies confirmed on Monday.

Log4Shell, the critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability identified in early December 2021 in the Apache Log4j logging utility, hasn’t seen the mass exploitation that many expected, but an exploit for it is now part of the Mirai botnet’s arsenal, researchers warn.

A Belarusian hacktivist group says it has launched a limited cyberattack on the national railway company, aimed at impeding the movement of Russian troops and freight inside the Moscow-allied country. It said it encrypted some servers, databases and workstations.

The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.

New Jersey court delivers summary judgment against insurance company’s refusal to pay based on war exclusion clause.

Microsoft has announced improved security for the users of its flagship Office productivity suite, courtesy of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros now being restricted by default.

Facebook's parent company Meta announced on Monday it was launching one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to boost its capacity to process data, despite persistent disputes over privacy and disinformation.

Researchers discovered that the Control Web Panel (CWP) web hosting panel is affected by two serious vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to remotely hack servers, and it’s possible that they may have already been exploited in the wild.

Unknown threat actors implanted backdoor code into multiple WordPress themes and plugins after compromising the website of their developer, Automattic’s Jatpack security research team reports.

Fines issued for GDPR non-compliance increased sevenfold from 2020 to 2021, analysis shows

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges.

In the recent attack aimed at the Ukrainian government, the attackers likely had access to the targeted network for months before causing damage, according to Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research unit.