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Web.com and its subsidiaries Network Solutions and Register.com, which are some of the world’s biggest domain registrars, recently disclosed a data breach that may have resulted in the theft of customer information.

Florida's top elections officer insisted Tuesday that her state's voting systems are adequately prepared for electronic attacks despite persistent concerns that hackers could again infiltrate the state's voting systems.

There have been many studies and investigations into the number of stolen credentials available on the dark web. However, a new report that was just released is a bit different: it focuses on credentials belonging to global Fortune 500 organizations, and used machine learning (ML) techniques to clean and verify the collected data.

Security updates released by Apple this week for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina 10.15 address roughly 40 vulnerabilities, including issues that affect both operating systems.

For years, cyber security experts have recommended augmenting usernames and passwords with multi-factor authentication (MFA) to add an additional layer of security for access control. By adopting an “MFA Everywhere” approach, organizations can establish a deterrent and ultimately minimize the risk of lateral movement of threat actors across networks. Many seem to have adopted this best practice.

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Russia interfered in the 2016 election and may try to sway next year’s vote as well. But it’s not the only nation with an eye on U.S. politics.

Austria's postal service have been fined 18 million euros ($20 million) for working up data about their customers' assumed political allegiances, the justice ministry said Tuesday.

Israeli spyware company NSO Group is accused by WhatsApp of cyberespionage targeting journalists, lawyers, human rights activists and others on the Facebook-owned messaging service.- Pocket spy -

WhatsApp on Tuesday sued Israeli technology firm NSO Group, accusing it of using the Facebook-owned messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists, human rights activists and others.

Two critical authentication-related vulnerabilities have been found in a chiller made by Germany-based Rittal for cooling IT applications.Rittal, a subsidiary of German manufacturing and services company Friedhelm Loh Group, specializes in making enclosure systems for industrial environments and data centers.

The increased use of automated control systems to manage drug formulations and product quality (particularly for combination drugs) is creating new security risks for the pharmaceutical industry. 

A chain of vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers could allow an attacker to gain a backdoor. The chain starts with DNS poisoning, goes on to downgrading the installed version of MikroTik's RouterOS software, and ends with enabling a backdoor.

Slack informed bug bounty hunters on Monday that it has increased the minimum rewards for serious vulnerabilities found in its products and websites.

Australia's consumer watchdog on Tuesday announced legal action against Google for allegedly misleading customers about the way it collects and uses personal location data.

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China on Tuesday blasted as "economic bullying" a US proposal to block telecom carriers buying from Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE.

A Russia-linked cyberspy group has targeted over a dozen anti-doping and sporting organizations in a recent campaign, Microsoft reported on Monday.According to Microsoft, the threat actor known as Strontium, Fancy Bear and APT28 has targeted at least 16 national and international anti-doping and sporting organizations across three continents.

Krystal, a fast-food restaurant chain based in Atlanta, Georgia, informed customers recently that it has launched an investigation into a cybersecurity incident involving the payment processing systems used by some of its restaurants.