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IoT security firm Armis has confirmed that the recently disclosed vulnerabilities tracked as Urgent/11 affect several real time operating systems (RTOS) other than VxWorks.

SecurityWeek has announced that it will offer an Advanced ICS/SCADA Hacking Training program at its 2019 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, which takes place October 21-24 in Atlanta.

Focusing on Data Security Controls Will Not Provide the Most Robust Protection Against Data Breaches

Hundreds of US municipalities, schools and health organizations have been hit by ransomware in 2019, leading to massive service disruptions, researchers said Tuesday.

Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on Tuesday unveiled the country’s Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan, whose goal is to help enhance the security and resilience of organizations that house OT systems.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is denying his country would interfere with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and says his government doesn’t have a preference in the race.

The New Zealand arm of Japanese sports brand Asics has apologised after pornography was broadcast on large television screens above its central Auckland store for several hours, startling Sunday morning shoppers.

The Marsh/Microsoft 2019 Global Risk Perception Survey is a follow-on to a similar survey published in February 2018 (conducted in 2017). SecurityWeek criticized the earlier survey results for not including a specific cybersecurity function among the respondents.

Medical Practice Closing Doors Permanently After Ransomware Destroys Patient Records and Backups

Malicious actors may be able to easily access unprotected Cisco WebEx and Zoom meetings due to an API enumeration vulnerability, Cequence Security’s CQ Prime threat research team revealed on Tuesday.

A former Yahoo software engineer has admitted in court to hacking into the accounts of thousands of the platform’s users.The man, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to accessing about 6,000 Yahoo accounts, in search of private and personal records, mainly sexual images and videos. 

A recently disclosed vBulletin vulnerability, which had a zero-day status for roughly two days last week, was exploited in a hacker attack targeting the forums of cybersecurity solutions provider Comodo.

Online companies in the EU can no longer present internet users with a pre-checked box telling them cookies will be planted on their smartphone or computer if they don't deselect the option, under a ruling issued Tuesday.

In the decade since the Stuxnet worm was discovered, multiple attacks that have been launched against operational technology (OT) networks including Shamoon, Havex, Wannycry, and Lockergoga. Looking back, a disturbing trend has emerged. Industrial attacks are being recycled.

BlackBerry on Monday announced the launch of BlackBerry Advanced Technology Development Labs, a new business unit focusing on cybersecurity research and development.

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is inviting 400 white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in its systems, as part of a three-week program hosted on hacker-powered pentesting and bug bounty platform HackerOne.

The United States Senate recently passed the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act, a piece of legislation that instructs the DHS to help organizations protect themselves against cyber threats and respond to incidents.

An American man who leaked confidential details of thousands of HIV-positive people in Singapore, most of them foreigners, has been jailed in the United States for two years.

A Critical vulnerability recently addressed in the popular open-source email server Exim could lead to remote code execution. Exim is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA) widely used in systems running Linux and macOS. At the moment, Exim powers over half of email servers out there. 

A recently identified data stealer is using Telegram to exfiltrate information harvested from infected machines, Juniper Networks security researchers say.