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Britain is expected to announce next week whether to allow China's Huawei to develop its 5G network, an official said on Friday, setting out reasons for agreeing despite US opposition.

Citrix has released a new set of patches for the recently disclosed CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability and partnered with FireEye for a tool that tells users if their systems have been compromised via the security flaw.

Researchers who took part this week in the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Miami hacking competition have earned a total of $280,000 for exploits targeting industrial control systems (ICS) and associated protocols.

A Russian national pleaded guilty Thursday to running a website that helped people commit more than $20 million in credit-card fraud.Aleksei Burkov, 29, of St. Petersburg, Russia, entered the plea to charges including fraud and money laundering in a federal court in Alexandria.

The privacy mechanism implemented by Apple’s Safari browser to prevent user tracking across websites is not efficient at protecting users’ privacy, Google security researchers have discovered.

Paying off hackers after a ransomware infection could end up being a total loss, according to a study released Thursday which finds some attackers just take the money and run.

A critical vulnerability in the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions on affected devices as administrator. 

Cloud security firm CloudKnox Security today announced that it has raised $12 million in a new funding round, which brings its total funding to $22.75 million. 

Several potentially serious vulnerabilities have been found in patient monitoring products made by GE Healthcare, the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and healthcare cybersecurity firm CyberMDX revealed on Thursday.

A targeted phishing campaign against government entities in Persian Gulf and Middle East countries was detected earlier this month. The campaign was using the heightened tension in the region following the killing of Iranian general Qasem Suleimani at a Baghdad airport, and used emails purporting to come from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

U.N. human rights experts are asking Washington to investigate a suspected Saudi hack that may have siphoned data from the personal smartphone of Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post. But the forensic evidence they cite comes from an incomplete study of Bezos’s phone, raising multiple questions.

Data security solutions provider Privafy has emerged from stealth mode with $22 million in funding, which it will use to scale product development.

Attacks recently identified to target a key organization in the European energy sector have employed a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously associated with Iran-linked threat actors, Recorded Future reports.

New Vancouver Space Becomes One of Six Global Technology Centres for Mastercard

Some of Honeywell’s MAXPRO video surveillance systems are affected by serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers to take complete control of the system, a researcher has discovered.

The United States pressed France on Wednesday to take "strong security measures" against potential breaches from 5G services provided by Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, saying failure to do so could imperil intelligence exchanges.

Security vulnerabilities in some AMD ATI Radeon graphics cards could allow attackers to remotely execute code or cause a denial of service condition, researchers from Cisco Talos have warned. 

Wednesday is the deadline to seek cash payments and claim free services as part of Equifax's $700 million settlement over a massive data breach.

Coalition, a San Francisco-based cyber insurance provider for SMBs, on Wednesday announced that it has acquired internet scanning and threat intelligence services provider BinaryEdge. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Independent UN rights experts said Wednesday they had received information that Amazon owner Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked through a WhatsApp account belonging to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.