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U.S. regulators have proposed cutting off funding for Chinese equipment in U.S. telecommunications networks, citing security threats.

Fortinet on Monday announced that it has completed the acquisition of San Francisco-based endpoint security company enSilo in an effort to enhance and strengthen its solutions.

Aviatrix, a California-based provider of cloud networking and security services for enterprises, on Monday announced that it raised $40 million in a Series C funding round.

The South African city of Johannesburg says it will not pay the ransom demanded by hackers who recently breached its IT systems.

Some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including those of the president, courts, and media were hacked in a massive cyber attack on Monday, officials and media said.

Tens of adware-carrying Android applications gathered 8 million installs on Google Play before being taken down, ESET reports.

Officials at a St. Louis health center that serves needy, uninsured residents says a cyber-attack has caused a data breach that potentially affected 152,000 people.

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty in federal court to hacking two companies and installing keyloggers in an effort to steal data.The man, Ankur Agarwal, 45, pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining information from computers and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Two senior US senators called for the government to study national security risks possibly posed by Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it could leave American users vulnerable to Beijing's spying.

Adobe has admitted that some Creative Cloud customer information — 7.5 million records, according to the researchers who stumbled upon the data — was exposed recently due to a misconfiguration.

The Pentagon said Friday it is awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, following a highly scrutinized bidding process which Amazon had been favored to win.

Network security firm Palo Alto Networks is planning to increase the price of its hardware products by a 5%, citing impact from recent tariffs for imported components. The Santa Clara, California-based cybersecurity company offers both network firewalls and cloud-based security solutions to help protect enterprise environments.

A major Florida health system with six hospitals must pay over $2 million after federal officials determined its HIPPA compliance program was in disarray for years.Federal health officials on Wednesday said they're fining Jackson Health System in Miami after it lost paper records with protected information for nearly 1,500 patients in 2016.

A network of 50 honeypots deployed around the world has been catching and monitoring attacks against IoT devices. Such detected attacks have increased almost nine-fold between H1 2018 and H1 2019, from 12 million to 105 million. During the same period, the number of unique attacking IP addresses increased from 69,000 to 276,000.

Raccoon is a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer that appeared in early 2019, and was aggressively marketed on underground forums from April 2019. Since then, its popularity and use has grown dramatically. It has become one of the top ten most referenced malware in the underground economy, and has infected hundreds of thousands of endpoints across individuals and organizations in North America, Europe and Asia.

A currently ongoing mobile-aware phishing campaign is targeting various non-governmental entities worldwide, including United Nations humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF, Lookout reports.

A group of security researchers from German universities has devised a new class of web cache poisoning attacks that could render victim services unreachable.

New Hardware-based Security Solution Helps Secure IoT Devices at the Silicon Level

Google has patched three more serious Chrome vulnerabilities that can be exploited to escape the web browser’s sandbox, and awarded the researcher who reported them a total of $50,000.

Fortinet security researchers took a deep dive into NukeSped malware samples that share multiple similarities with other malware families used by North Korean threat actors.