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A judge in Brazil’s capital on Thursday dismissed accusations that journalist Glenn Greenwald was involved in hacking phones of officials, following weeks of criticism that his prosecution would infringe on constitutional protections for the press.

One of the security flaws that Google addressed with the February 2020 set of Android patches is a critical vulnerability in Bluetooth that could lead to code execution.

Malicious optimizer, booster, and utility applications hosted on Google Play gathered nearly half a million downloads before being taken down, Trend Micro reports.

Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel this week disclosed cyber intrusions they suffered back in 2016 and 2018.

The Iran-linked threat group know as "Charming Kitten" has been targeting journalists, political and human rights activists in a new campaign aimed at stealing email account credentials, Certfa Lab reports.

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A vulnerability in the Realtek HD Audio Driver package could be abused to execute arbitrary payloads with elevated privileges on a vulnerable machine, SafeBreach Labs has discovered.Tracked as CVE-2019-19705, the vulnerability could be leveraged to evade defenses and achieve persistence by loading an arbitrary, unsigned DLL into a signed process.

Cloud security company Netskope on Thursday announced that it has raised $340 million in a Series G funding round, valuing the firm at nearly $3 billion.

Enterprise device security firm Forescout Technologies (NASDAQ:FSCT) announced on Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Advent International in a deal valued at $1.9 billion.

US-based cyber hygiene and patch management company Automox this week announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round, which brings the total raised by the firm to $42 million.

Gov. John Bel Edwards called on Louisiana’s local government leaders Wednesday to protect their data, reminding them of recent cyberattacks across the state and saying they’re likely to face such a strike in the future.

FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement has not seen ongoing efforts by Russia to target America’s election infrastructure.

Google this week released Chrome 80 to the stable channel with 56 vulnerability patches and various other improvements to user security.

A bug in the Google Takeout download service has resulted in some users’ videos being inadvertently shared with other people. 

Europe's physics lab CERN on Wednesday said it had stopped using a Facebook team-chat application because of concerns about handing over data to the US tech giant.CERN said it had wound up its Facebook Workplace account on January 31 after the US firm gave it the choice of either paying to use the service or sharing data.

Researchers have shown how hackers could silently exfiltrate sensitive information from air-gapped computers by manipulating the brightness of their screen.

Reston, VA-based Leidos Holdings has announced a definitive agreement to buy the airport security and automation businesses from UK-based L3Harris for $1 billion in cash.

Tens of millions of Cisco devices deployed in enterprise environments are exposed to attacks due to vulnerabilities identified by researchers in a proprietary discovery protocol they all use.

Facebook has patched a vulnerability in WhatsApp Desktop that could allow an attacker to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and access files from the victim’s system when paired with WhatsApp for iPhone.

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