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The Alaska court system said Tuesday it had restored email capabilities nearly two weeks after a cybersecurity attack.

A researcher this week disclosed the details of a dozen design and implementation flaws that could affect all devices with Wi-Fi capabilities, exposing their users to remote attacks.

A German regulator on Tuesday slapped a three-month ban on Facebook collecting user data from WhatsApp accounts and referred the case to an EU watchdog, citing concerns about election integrity.

SAP has released a total of six new security notes on its May 2021 Security Patch Day, along with updates for five other security notes, including three rated Hot News.

A Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate that stole data from the Washington, D.C., police department says negotiations over payment have broken down, with it rejecting a $100,000 payment, and it will release sensitive information that could put lives at risk if more money is not offered.

Microsoft’s monthly security patch release for May 2021 includes cover for 55 documented vulnerabilities, some serious enough to expose Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

Cycode, an Israeli startup focused on securing DevOps tools, today announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding, which brings the total capital raised by the company up to $25 million.

Adobe on Tuesday warned that a gaping security hole in one of the most widely deployed software products has been exploited in the wild in “limited attacks targeting Adobe Reader users on Windows.”

Siemens’ May 2021 Patch Tuesday advisories address roughly 60 vulnerabilities introduced by the use of third-party components.

The University of California (UC) this week confirmed that personal information was stolen in a cyberattack involving the Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) service.

Google this week announced yet another set of patches for Chrome, to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities affecting the web browser.The latest Chrome iteration - 90.0.4430.212 – is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. The Android and iOS variants of the browser were updated as well.

Documents submitted in a court case involving Apple revealed that the XcodeGhost malware discovered in 2015 impacted 128 million iOS users.

The Pentagon is reconsidering how to make a massive shift to cloud computing, officials said Monday, suggesting it could scrap the so-called JEDI contract potentially worth $10 billion that was awarded to Microsoft Corp. but is mired in legal challenges.

Google has released a new open-source tool called cosign to make it easier to manage the process of signing and verifying container images.

After a ransomware attack forced Colonial Pipeline Company to proactively shut down operations of the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, the company is scrambling to get systems back to normal operating capacity.

Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a crime.Hackers had taken advantage of a weak password to break in and encrypt the files of the department in Roxana, a small town in Illinois near St. Louis, and were demanding $6,000 of bitcoin.

Researchers at anti-malware vendor Kaspersky are documenting a previously unknown Windows rootkit being used in the toolkit of an APT actor currently targeting diplomatic entities in Asia and Africa.

Four individuals from Eastern Europe have pleaded guilty in a United States court to their roles in a RICO conspiracy. Between 2008 and 2015, the four individuals provided “bulletproof hosting” services that threat actors employed for cyberattacks on entities in the United States.

A total of 16 cybersecurity-related acquisitions were announced in the first part of May 2021 (May 1-9).

The pandemic, among other variables, has greatly accelerated cloud adoption for many organizations in 2021.