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An Ohio gamer upset about a $1.50 bet while playing Call of Duty: WWII online was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison for recruiting a prankster to make a bogus emergency call that resulted in the fatal shooting of a Kansas man by police.

A publicly accessible, unprotected database belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads was found to expose 198 million records, including personally identifiable information, Security Discovery reports.

The US Treasury on Friday placed sanctions on three North Korea government-sponsored hacking operations which it said were behind the theft of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure.

On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, ransomware was discovered at Flagstaff Unified School District, Arizona. Schools were closed on Thursday and Friday of that week, but re-opened after the weekend. No ransom was paid, and only two days schooling was lost.

Shape Security has raised a further $51 million in Series F growth funding, valuing the company at $1 billion. The total capital raised to date is now $183 million.

A recently discovered malware dropper employs heavy obfuscation and poses as a virtual coin wallet, in an attempt to deliver a Netwire payload, Avast’s security researchers reveal.

Sophos this week removed the license check and activation requirements from Sandboxie, essentially making the isolation tool free.The move, the cybersecurity firm says, is the first step it makes toward releasing the sandbox-based isolation program open source.

IBM on Thursday unveiled the IBM z15, a mainframe that provides enterprises new capabilities for protecting sensitive customer data across hybrid multi-cloud environments.

President Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied a media report that Israel spied on cell phones in the vicinity of the White House -- and President Donald Trump said he believed him.Speaking on a trip to Russia, Netanyahu said there was no eavesdropping on cell phones around the US presidency because he had forbidden spying against the United States.

A member of a sophisticated international hacking group that authorities say targeted businesses in 47 states to steal credit and debit card records pleaded guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges in Seattle.

An Israeli spyware company that has been accused of helping authoritarian governments stifle dissent says it has adopted "a new human rights policy" to ensure its software is not misused.

An analysis of Android flashlight applications available in Google Play has revealed that they request an average of 25 permissions, with some requesting up to 77 permissions when installed.

A firmware update NETGEAR recently released for the N300 series routers addresses two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities found by security researchers at Cisco’s Talos group.Tracked as CVE-2019-5054, the first of the two bugs resides in the session handling functionality of the NETGEAR N300 (WNR2000v5) HTTP server.

The Russia-linked hackers who triggered a power outage in Ukraine back in 2016 may have hoped to cause much more damage, according to a report published recently by U.S.-based industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos.

The attack traffic recorded by F-Secure's global network of honeypots tripled from the last six months of 2018 to the first six months of 2019. In H2 2018, the network recorded 813 million attacks. In H1 2019, that figure leapt to 2.98 billion attacks.

The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced that it has received $2.5 million in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies.

NATO member Poland will launch a cyberspace defense force by 2024 made up of around 2,000 soldiers qualified in cybersecurity, the defense minister said on Thursday after formally approving it.

The WatchBog cryptocurrency-mining botnet is heavily reliant on the Pastebin website for command and control (C&C) operations, Cisco Talos’ security researchers reveal.

Researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security, a firm that specializes in cyber telecoms security, have disclosed a new SIM card attack method that could work against over 1 billion mobile phones, and they claim it has already been exploited by a surveillance company to track users.

Organizations Must be Wary of the Security Implications of Transitioning to 5G