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When it comes to high-value assets, few industries can come close to financial services. It’s not just the obvious fact that banks are giant warehouses of money—banks represent critical pieces of infrastructure that entire economies rely upon. 

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival's campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

The European Union unveiled proposals Wednesday to regulate artificial intelligence that call for strict rules and safeguards on risky applications of the rapidly developing technology.

Researchers Find Internet-Exposed, Poorly Protected Out of Band Consoles Commonly Used in Maritime and Oil & Gas Industries

Endpoint security firm SentinelOne on Wednesday announced that it has raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, at a valuation of more than $1.1 billion, which gives the company “unicorn” status.

Vulnerabilities in two popular WordPress plugins, ThemeREX Addons and ThemeGrill Demo Importer, are being exploited to hack websites.

Google this week announced that users in 10 countries can now take advantage of the hardware based two-factor authentication (2FA) functionality offered by the Titan Security Keys. 

Washington has the right to block US federal agencies from buying products by Huawei on cybersecurity grounds, a judge has ruled, dismissing the Chinese telecom giant's legal challenge to a purchase ban.

Cybersecurity focused venture investor ForgePoint Capital has closed its second fund (Fund II) with $450 million in capital commitments, the firm said Wednesday. 

A ransomware infection at a natural gas compression facility in the United States resulted in a two-day operational shutdown of an entire pipeline asset, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed on Tuesday.

The criminal use of encryption to hide malware is growing rapidly. In the first half of 2019 the use of encryption by malware almost equaled the entire encrypted volume of 2018, and is not likely to slow. Today, nearly a quarter of malware communicates using TLS.

For the second time within two months, Google has removed United Arab Emirates-developed messaging application ToTok from Google Play.

More than 22,000 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2019 and over one-third had an exploit or a proof-of-concept (PoC) available, Risk Based Security revealed on Tuesday.

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) on Tuesday said that it has agreed to sell its RSA Security unit to a private equity group for roughly $2.075 billion in cash. 

Enveil, a Fulton, Maryland-based data security company, today announced that it has secured $10 million in Series A funding. 

A vulnerability addressed by F-Secure in some of its business products could have been exploited to bypass their scanning engine using malformed archives.

Mountain View, CA-based Egnyte is combining its Protect and Connect platforms into a single Content Services platform. As data has expanded, business has become more geographically dispersed, and data protection regulations have increased around the world, so it has become more important for companies to have a combined solution for connecting data to staff while obeying all local governance requirements in any region.

ExtraHop Takes Network Security and Visibility to the IoT Edge

Several serious vulnerabilities have been found by a researcher in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) and Secure Remote Access (SRA) appliances made by SonicWall. The vendor has released software updates that patch the flaws.

Microsoft representatives are in Fulton, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to conduct the first real-world trials for ElectionGuard, the company’s open source election security solution.