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The City of Durham and the Durham County government in North Carolina are in the process of recovery after experiencing what appears to be a ransomware attack on March 6.

New Framework Enables Deployment of Firewalls as Software-Based PlatformsAT&T, Palo Alto Networks and Broadcom have been developing a framework that enables organizations to deploy firewalls as software-based platforms instead of hardware appliances.

Google has announced that Android and macOS users can now use more web browsers to initially register security keys to their accounts.

WatchGuard Technologies to Buy Panda Security in Latest Endpoint Security Acquisition

A former CIA software engineer accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency’s hacking tools and handing it over to WikiLeaks was convicted of only minor charges Monday, after a jury deadlocked on the more serious espionage charges against him.

Newly introduced legislation seeks to protect journalist who publish classified information, as well as security researchers who discover classified government backdoors. 

Federal agencies participating in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) report that they are on track with previously announced plans to close hundreds of outdated data centers, but many of the facilities that will continue to operate are at increased risk of being hacked, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned last week.

Employing techniques usually associated with nation-state threat actors, human-operated ransomware attacks represent a growing threat to businesses, Microsoft warned last week.

Researchers have identified two new methods for attacking AMD processors, but they are not as dangerous as some of the previously disclosed CPU attacks.

Australia's privacy watchdog announced legal action against Facebook Monday for alleged "systematic failures" exposing more than 300,000 Australians to a data breach by Cambridge Analytica.

Virgin Media has been accused of downplaying the recently disclosed cybersecurity incident that involved the personal information of roughly 900,000 people.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States, United Kingdom and Estonia accused Russia’s military intelligence Thursday of conducting cyber attacks against the Georgian government and media websites in an attempt “to sow discord and disrupt the lives of ordinary Georgians.”

Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Mayo Clinic Invest in Enterprise IoT Security Firm

Consulting giant Accenture has acquired UK-based cyber defense consultancy Context Information Security from Babcock International Group.Accenture says it’s not disclosing any financial terms, but aerospace and defense company Babcock revealed that it sold Context for £107 million, or roughly $140 million.

Facebook announced on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against domain registrar Namecheap and its Whoisguard privacy protection service over its refusal to provide information on a series of domains that impersonated the social media company and its services.

To thwart increasingly dangerous cyber criminals, law enforcement agents are working to “burn down their infrastructure” and take out the tools that allow them to carry out their devastating attacks, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

Free and open certificate authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt has decided that it will not revoke one million of the certificates affected by the recent CAA recheck bug.

Business tools development company Zoho says it’s working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability affecting its ManageEngine Desktop Central product.

UK-based phone, TV and broadband services provider Virgin Media on Thursday admitted that it exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 people.

US lawmakers proposed legislation Thursday that could see internet companies held legally responsible for content on their platforms if they don't do enough to police child pornography.