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Enterprise application access provider Axis Security this week announced that it has raised $32 million in Series B funding, which brings the total raised by the company to $49 million.

A U.S. district judge has dismissed New Mexico’s privacy claims against Google over privacy concerns, but New Mexico’s top prosecutor vowed Monday to continue the legal fight to protect child privacy rights.

Cisco this week released patches for two high-severity vulnerabilities in IOS XR software that have been actively exploited in attacks for over a month.

Twitter’s search for a new chief information security officer (CISO) has come to an end. The social media giant announced this week that Rinki Sethi has been appointed to the role.

A Russian national was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched in recent days against popular flight tracking services may be linked to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

FireEye's Mandiant Threat Intelligence and MITRE have collaborated on developing a new visualization able to combine the two separate Enterprise ATT&CK and ICS ATT&CK threat knowledgebases into a single holistic view combining both IT and OT attack behaviors.

VMware on Tuesday announced Carbon Black Cloud Workload, a new security solution designed to help organizations protect workloads running in private, virtualized and hybrid cloud environments.

The China-linked BlackTech cyber-spies have adopted new malicious tools in recent attacks, and they have started targeting the United States, Symantec security researchers revealed on Tuesday.

IT asset and service management solutions provider Ivanti on Monday announced the acquisition of MobileIron and Pulse Secure.

Threat actors are expected to spread false information regarding hacked voter information and voting systems, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) say in an alert.

A registration statement filed by McAfee on Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that the company is planning on returning to public markets.

Human rights organization Amnesty International has identified new macOS and Linux-targeting variants of the infamous FinFisher-made spyware family FinSpy.

Universal Health Services (UHS) over the weekend shut down the IT networks at multiple hospitals in the United States, after being hit with a cyberattack.

French shipping giant CMA CGM on Monday revealed that it has been dealing with a cyberattack that forced it to shut down some systems.

Text storage service Pastebin last week announced the introduction of two new security features, but some industry professionals believe they will likely be abused by malicious actors.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert to warn of attackers actively targeting a recently addressed vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC).

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin over the weekend announced that hackers managed to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies from multiple hot wallets.

Tyler Technologies, a major provider of software and services for state and local governments in the United States, has advised customers to reset remote network access passwords after a couple of customers reported suspicious logins.