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Watch enough old science fiction movies, and you’re bound to look outside and wonder why the cars on the road don’t drive themselves, why the litter on the sidewalk hasn’t been cleaned up by drones, and why robots aren’t whizzing by with bags full of groceries. The present, it seems, has failed to make good on past promises of the future. 

A fake Windows Update spam campaign has been dropping the Cyborg ransomware. The mail delivery mechanism claims to come from Microsoft. It directs the potential victim to an attachment described as the 'latest critical update'.

CyberCube Analytics, a San Francisco-based startup that offers cyber risk analytics solutions for the insurance industry, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $35 million through a Series B funding round led by HSCM Bermuda and existing investor ForgePoint Capital.

Deployed inside the sprawling communist-era army command headquarters in Montenegro’s capital, an elite team of U.S. military cyber experts are plotting strategy in a fight against potential Russian and other cyberattacks ahead of the 2020 American and Montenegrin elections.

Microsoft this week revealed plans to adopt DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in Windows 10 in an attempt to keep user traffic as private as possible.

Stalkerware is a growing social problem with potentially dire personal consequences. It is a complex issue with no simple solution -- but ten organizations have come together to create the global Coalition Against Stalkerware to provide victim support and cybersecurity expertise.

Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung could have been exploited by malicious actors to spy on hundreds of millions of users.

Adobe on Monday informed customers that support for Acrobat 2015 and Reader 2015 will end on April 7, 2020.Adobe provides up to five years of support for its products and the time is nearly up for Acrobat and Reader 2015. After April 7, 2020, these products will no longer receive any updates, including patches for vulnerabilities.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Monday revealed that a ransomware attack hit state servers, prompting a response from the state’s cyber-security team.

Macy’s has started informing some of its customers that their personal and financial information may have been stolen by cybercriminals.

A US congressional committee on Monday asked for a briefing on a Google project to modernize healthcare while giving the internet titan access to millions of people's medical data.

It took Swiss-based industrial technology solutions provider ABB five years to inform customers of a critical vulnerability affecting one of its products, and the researcher who found it says this increased the chances of threat actors discovering and exploiting the security flaw.

Popular password manager 1Password has closed a $200 million Series A round, which the company says is the first outside investment following 14 years of growth and profitability. 

A 20-year-old Cypriot wanted for hacking offences in the United States is set to be the country's first citizen to be extradited there, his lawyer said Monday.The FBI accuses Joshua Epifaniou of extorting thousands of dollars from US firms while still a teenager by breaking into their IT systems and threatening to leak their data if they didn't pay.

An Illinois man was sentenced to 13 months in prison for his role as administrator of stresser services that launched millions of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

A major exercise whose goal was to test the cyber and physical security of North America’s grid has enabled the energy industry and governments to review and improve incident response plans and collaboration.

A security vulnerability in WhatsApp that was made public last week could be abused to execute arbitrary code remotely on affected devices.

White hat hackers have earned $545,000 for successfully demonstrating zero-day exploits targeting products from VMware, Microsoft, Google, Apple, D-Link, and Adobe at the 2019 Tianfu Cup hacking competition that took place over the weekend in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province.

Americans are increasingly fearful of monitoring of their online and offline activities, both by governments and private companies, a survey showed Friday.The Pew Research Center report said more than 60 percent of US adults believe it is impossible to go about daily life without having personal information collected by companies or the government.

GitHub this week announced GitHub Security Lab, a new initiative aimed at making open source software more secure.