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A total of 11 cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced between July 9 and July 19, 2021.

The United Nations’ human rights chief voiced alarm Monday over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.

Apple in early 2021 quietly patched an iOS vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution when connecting to a Wi-Fi access point that had a specially crafted SSID.

Human rights and press freedom activists are up in arms about a new report on NSO Group, the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company. The report, by a global media consortium, expands public knowledge of the target list used in NSO’s military-grade spyware.

Microsoft on Monday announced that it secured a court order to take down numerous malicious homoglyph domains that a criminal group registered to impersonate legitimate sites of various businesses, predominantly located in North America.

Juniper Networks has shipped security patches to cover numerous vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a series of critical bugs in third-party software used in the company's products.

Enterprise security teams need to move from the consumption of crowdsourced threat intelligence (CTI) to an additional mode of contribution

Reports that Israel-made Pegasus spyware has been used to monitor activists, journalists and politicians around the world highlight the diplomatic risks of nurturing and exporting "oppressive technology", experts warned Monday.

Prominent law firm Campbell Conroy & O'Neil said it fell victim to a ransomware attack five months ago that resulted in systems holding sensitive information being compromised.

Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence and research unit has disclosed the details of several critical vulnerabilities affecting a router monitoring application made by Taiwan-based industrial and IoT solutions provider Advantech.The affected tool is R-SeeNet, which is designed to help network administrators monitor their Advantech routers.

The United States and its allies have officially attributed the Microsoft Exchange server attacks disclosed in early March to hackers affiliated with the Chinese government.

OPSWAT, which specializes in cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure, on Monday announced the acquisition of industrial cybersecurity company Bayshore Networks.

Ireland dramatically loosened international travel restrictions on Monday, joining an EU-wide pandemic passport scheme weeks later than the rest of the bloc after a ransomware attack hobbled healthcare IT systems.

An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of 50,000 smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports Sunday.

Virginia Tech says it was targeted in two recent cyberattacks but feels confident no data was stolen.

Little will happen until and unless the European Data Protection Authorities begin to enforce Schrems II

Microsoft’s problems with security defects in the Windows Print Spooler utility are getting worse by the week.

Cisco on Thursday released patches for a high severity vulnerability in the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software, warning that exploitation could lead to crippling denial-of-service attacks.