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A US judge on Sunday blocked the government's ban on WeChat downloads, hours before it was due to take effect in an ongoing technology and espionage battle between Washington and Beijing.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday issued an Emergency Directive that requires federal agencies to install fixes for a Netlogon elevation of privilege vulnerability for which Microsoft released patches in August 2020.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal that would see the popular video-sharing app TikTok partner with Oracle and Walmart and form a U.S. company.

Adam Schiff was in the audience at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum when a Microsoft executive mentioned an attempted hacking of three politicians up for reelection. It was the first that Schiff, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had ever heard of it.

Mozi, a relatively new botnet, has fueled a significant increase in Internet of Things (IoT) botnet activity, IBM reported this week.

Iranian Group Found Spying on Dissidents

The founder and CEO of NS8, a cyber fraud prevention and protection company, has been charged with fraud just months after the firm raised $123 million in funding, the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Thursday.

Patients and donors to at least four different health care providers in Minnesota are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised.

Twitter announced this week that it’s taking steps to protect high-profile accounts during the upcoming election in the United States.

Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for Covid-19, El Pais newspaper reported Friday.

The U.S. will ban the downloads of the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday, with a total ban on the use of the latter, citing national security and data privacy concerns.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday announced sanctions against Iran-based cyber threat actor APT39, associated individuals, and a front company named Rana Intelligence Computing Company.

California-based machine data analytics company Sumo Logic jumped 22 percent on its first day of trading Thursday, closing the day at nearly $27 a share.

More details have emerged on the operations of the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor known as APT41 and the links between its members, following the indictment of several alleged members of the group earlier this week.

Since her personal phone number was posted online, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Carol Ng has received menacing calls from strangers and been bombarded with messages calling her a "cockroach".She is not alone.

Apple has patched nearly a dozen vulnerabilities and it has introduced new privacy features with the release of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 this week.

The phrase “assume breach” has been transformational to enterprise security investment and defensive strategy for a few years but may now be close to retirement. 

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced charges against three Iranian nationals believed to have stolen information related to the United States’ aerospace and satellite technologies.

Several information disclosure and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, including one rated critical, have been patched this week in the Drupal content management system (CMS).

German authorities said Thursday that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.