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The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden seeking to prevent the former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor from profiting from his new book.

Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered an unprotected database apparently storing information on nearly everyone in Ecuador, including children and deceased individuals.

Bochum, Germany-based VMRay has closed a $10 million Series B funding round led by Digital+ Partners, bringing the total raised to date to just under $14 million. The money will be used in both marketing and R&D. R&D is based in Germany, while all customer-facing operations are run from Boston, Mass.

A recently discovered cryptocurrency mining malware targeting Linux machines is employing kernel-mode rootkits in an attempt to make detection more difficult, Trend Micro reveals.

A vulnerability in the AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL driver could be triggered from within a VMware guest to execute code on the host, Cisco Talos warns.

Oracle this week expanded its portfolio with three new services designed to help automatically protect cloud workloads and data.

Australia is confident that China was behind cyberattacks on its parliament and political parties, but decided not to make public accusations to avoid disrupting trade relations, according to Reuters.

Researchers have discovered many vulnerabilities in over a dozen small office/home office (SOHO) routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices as part of a project dubbed SOHOpelessly Broken 2.0.

Millions of Ecuadorians are at risk of identity theft because a security breach exposed a trove of data including names, phone numbers and birth dates, a cyber security firm said Monday.

A newly discovered remote access Trojan can steal various types of data from the infected machines, including personal data and cryptocurrency wallet information, Zscaler security researchers warn.

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor living in Russia after leaking information about the US government's mass surveillance program, has said he would like to return home if he can get a fair trial.

The strike on Saudi oil infrastructure highlights the easy vulnerability of such facilities even as the kingdom has splurged billions on sophisticated defense hardware.

A vulnerability recently addressed in LastPass could be abused by attackers to expose the last site credentials filled by LastPass.A freemium password manager, LastPass stores encrypted passwords online and provides users with a web interface to access them, as well as with plugins for web browsers and apps for smartphones.

Several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities have been found recently in widely used CODESYS industrial products made by Germany-based 3S-Smart Software Solutions.

That foreign nations will attempt to interfere with the U.S. 2020 elections is a given.

MobiHok is a new Android RAT marketed by the actor known as mobeebom. It is a recycled version of the older, established SpyNote RAT.

Members of The Onion Router (Tor) community have raised $86,081 as part of an initiative aimed at securing funds to find and squash issues in the popular browser.Called the Bug Smash Fund, the initiative was launched at the beginning of August 2019, with the purpose of creating a reserve for the Tor Project to use for maintenance and bug patching.

Cybersecurity giant Symantec has informed more than 200 employees in the United States that they are being laid off as part of a recently announced restructuring plan for fiscal year 2020.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, living in Russia since leaking a trove of classified documents showing the scope of post-9/11 US government surveillance, wants to claim asylum in France, according to an interview published Saturday.

British police said Friday they had arrested a 19-year-old man for stealing unreleased songs from musicians' websites and cloud-based accounts, as part of a US-led investigation.