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Research and advisory giant Gartner predicts that global security and risk management spending will exceed $150 billion this year.The company forecasts that information security and risk management will grow by more than 12 percent in 2021. Spending in these segments increased by more than 6 percent in 2020.

Unsophisticated threat actors — in many cases motivated by financial gain — have increasingly targeted internet-exposed operational technology (OT) systems, according to research conducted by Mandiant, FireEye’s threat intelligence and incident response unit.

Bose Corporation last week started sending out breach notification letters to inform some individuals of personal data being compromised in a cyberattack identified on March 7.

Gartner first gave name to the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) model, effectively defining it. SASE combines WAN and security as a cloud service. 

If the Pentagon's Cyber Command launches an online attack and nobody knows about it, does it deter anyone?Many Americans are asking what the country's army of cyber warriors are doing after repeated attacks on US computer systems by Chinese, Russian and other hackers.

Researchers working for a French government agency have identified seven new Bluetooth vulnerabilities that could expose many devices to impersonation and other types of attacks.

Apple on Monday announced that software updates for its desktop and mobile operating systems address tens of vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw in macOS Big Sur that has been exploited in attacks.

From paralysing the internet in Estonia to a $4.4-million ransom being paid last week after the shutdown of a major US pipeline, we take a look back at 15 years of cyberattacks.

Vulnerabilities identified by security researchers with Cisco’s Talos unit in Trend Micro Home Network Security devices could be exploited to elevate privileges or achieve arbitrary authentication.

Over the years, Moscow has faced numerous allegations of cyberattacks that resulted in multiple sanctions and the expulsion of its diplomats. The term "hacker" has almost become synonymous with Russia.

A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company’s Nevada electric battery plant in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom.

Most residents of Tulsa are being prevented from paying their water bills after the city shut down its computer network as a security measure following an attempted ransomware attack, a city official said Friday.

Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance manufacturer QNAP Systems has revealed that a vulnerability in its Hybrid Backup Sync software has been exploited in Qlocker ransomware attacks.

The FBI says it has observed 16 Conti ransomware attacks that targeted healthcare and first responder networks in the United States over the past year.

Bitcoin scams have soared over the last seven months. The surge started around October 2020, and the scams are continuing today.

In early March, a Boston-based vote-counting firm called Clear Ballot Group sent a bid to Arizona’s state Senate to audit the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County.

The U.S. government is hoping to obtain additional information on the 2017 hacker attack targeting the EtherDelta cryptocurrency trading platform and it has asked victims of the incident to come forward.

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point discovered that many Android applications publicly expose sensitive user data through misconfigured third-party services.

A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to hacking a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employee database, stealing the personal information of more than 65,000 people and then selling the information online.Justin Johnson, 30, is being held at Butler County Prison and will be sentenced in four months, the Tribune-Review reported.