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Video game giant Capcom this week revealed that thousands more people than initially believed had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack in November 2020.

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol IO-Link Master industrial gateways, including flaws that researchers claim can be exploited to gain root access to a device and create backdoors.

Cisco this week announced that it does not plan on addressing tens of vulnerabilities affecting some of its small business routers.

Any EU country can take legal action against companies like Facebook over cross-border violations of data privacy rules, not just the main regulator in charge of the company, a top court adviser said Wednesday.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – says Accellion’s FTA (File Transfer Application) file sharing service was involved in a security incident disclosed on Sunday.

The number of federal agencies and private companies who learn that they have been affected by a massive Russian hack is expected to grow as the investigation into it continues, the U.S. government’s chief counterintelligence official said Tuesday.

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Google, Twitter and Amazon are hopeful that Joe Biden's incoming administration in the United States will enact a federal digital data law, senior company officials said at CES, the annual electronics and technology show.

Hackers have started leaking documents related to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines that were stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in early December 2020.

Someone has set up a website named SolarLeaks where they are offering to sell gigabytes of files allegedly obtained as a result of the recently disclosed SolarWinds breach.

WhatsApp on Tuesday reassured users about privacy at the Facebook-owned messaging service as people flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal following a tweak to its terms.

A recently discovered Mobile Remote Access Trojan (MRAT) can take control of the infected Android devices and exfiltrate a trove of user data, Check Point security researchers warn.

Email security company Mimecast on Tuesday revealed that a sophisticated threat actor had obtained a certificate provided to certain customers.

A watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the 2020 census last year, but the statistical agency disputes some of the findings and says no data was compromised.

German software maker SAP has published 10 advisories to document flaws and fixes for a range of serious security vulnerabilities.

Microsoft on Tuesday released the first batch of security patches for 2021 with fixes for 83 documented security vulnerabilities, including a "critical" bug in the Defender security product that's being actively exploited.

Data protection and compliance solutions provider HITRUST has announced the release of new Shared Responsibility Matrices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft on Monday announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux now provides endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to all users.

Adobe on Tuesday released its first round of security updates for 2021, just as the company starts blocking Flash content.

At the virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, chipmaker Intel announced CPU-based ransomware detection capabilities have been fitted directly into the Intel vPro platform.