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Palo Alto Networks has threatened legal action against cloud visibility solutions provider Orca Security after the latter published a video comparing products from the two companies.

Apple has inadvertently given the thumbs up to six new malware variants, according to researchers at Mac security solutions provider Intego.

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The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against a Russian government institute connected to the destructive Triton malware.

Finland’s interior minister summoned key Cabinet members into an emergency meeting Sunday after hundreds — and possibly thousands — of patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by a hacker or hackers now demanding ransoms.

A ransomware attack that hobbled a Georgia county government in early October reportedly disabled a database used to verify voter signatures in the authentication of absentee ballots.

Microsoft and MITRE, in collaboration with a dozen other organizations, have developed a framework designed to help identify, respond to, and remediate attacks targeting machine learning (ML) systems.

Risk is a condition that pre-exists an incident. If you reduce security risk, you will reduce security incidents. Epiphany is a new risk detection and quantification platform that highlights, qualifies and quantifies the risks that occur within the technical structure and users of a network, giving the security team the opportunity to eliminate the risk before an incident.

Google has stepped up its effort against websites that have a history of sending abusive notification content, by blocking notification permission requests in Chrome 86.

The Iran-linked cyber-espionage group known as Seedworm appears to have added a new downloader to its arsenal and to have started conducting destructive attacks, security researchers report.

The United States says Russian state-sponsored hacking group Energetic Bear has successfully compromised state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks and stole data from at least two servers.

The European Union on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Russian officials and part of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency over a cyberattack against the German parliament in 2015.

A database with information on virtually the entire US voting population has been circulated on hacker forums, opening up the potential for disinformation and scams that could impact the November 3 election, security researchers say.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced that it has approved the use of a new rubric specifically designed by the MITRE Corporation for assigning CVSS scores to vulnerabilities found in medical devices.

Malwarebytes security researchers have identified a new campaign in which tech support scammers are exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and are relying exclusively on links posted on Facebook to reach potential victims.

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said on Thursday.Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who revealed in 2013 that the US government was spying on its citizens, has been living in exile in Russia since the revelations.

Cisco on Wednesday announced the release of patches for 17 high-severity vulnerabilities in its security appliances as part of its Security Advisory Bundled Publication for October 2020.

Security operations company Arctic Wolf on Thursday announced the closing of a $200 million Series E funding round that values it at $1.3 billion.

Storage solutions provider QNAP this week published an advisory to warn customers that certain versions of QTS, the operating system for its network-attached storage (NAS) devices, are affected by the Zerologon vulnerability.

Cybersecurity hygiene has never been as crucial as it is today. We are working remotely, putting in more hours and dealing with new situations we haven’t experienced. For many, this change is not only stressful, but also distracting. These changes have upended the traditional workday and, in many cases, our concentration, which introduces risk.