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Facebook is unwittingly auto-generating content for terror-linked groups that its artificial intelligence systems do not recognize as extremist, according to a complaint made public on Thursday.

US regulators on Thursday denied a request by China Mobile to operate in the US market and provide international telecommunications services, saying links to the Chinese government pose a national security risk.

Evident ID, an Atlanta-based company that specializes in identity and credential verification, on Thursday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

A former government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns against terrorist group al-Qaeda to a reporter.Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested Thursday morning and will make an initial appearance at the federal courthouse there, authorities said.

Samsung this week unveiled Exynos i T100, a new mobile system-on-chip (SoC) designed to enhance the security and reliability of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that use short-range communication protocols.

Two Israeli citizens arrested this week are accused of being the administrators of a website that linked to numerous illegal dark web marketplaces. 

Updates released this week for the Drupal and TYPO3 open source content management systems (CMSs) patch vulnerabilities related to how Phar archives are handled.The Phar (PHP Archive) package format enables developers to place all the files of a PHP application inside a single archive.

For the past three years, Alpine Linux Docker images have been shipped with a NULL password for the root user, Cisco’s Talos security researchers have discovered. 

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A three-year prison sentence has been handed a man found guilty of hacking the servers of a northern Illinois company after he was fired.

Global information services giant Wolters Kluwer has taken many of its applications and platforms offline after discovering malware on its systems.The Netherlands-based company started seeing what it described as “technical anomalies” on May 6. This triggered an investigation that led to the discovery of malware.

Sumo Logic, a SaaS machine data analytics platform provider, today announced that it has secured $110 million through a funding round led by Battery Ventures.

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Sophos security researchers have observed a spike in the number of attacks featuring a new ransomware family called MegaCortex.

Freedom Mobile, Canada's fourth largest mobile network operator, through a third-party service provider, exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data.

WordPress released version 5.2 of the popular content management system (CMS) this week, which includes new security and stability features. Named “Jaco,” the update is already available in the WordPress dashboard, and provides administrators with the ability to fix sites much easier than before, in the event something goes wrong. 

Android May 2019 Patches Fix Critical Remote Code Execution VulnerabilitiesThe May 2019 set of security patches released for the Android operating system address 8 Critical vulnerabilities, including 4 remote code execution flaws. 

A vulnerability disclosed late last year has been exploited by malicious actors to deliver a piece of malware that deploys a Monero cryptocurrency miner and looks for new victims on the internet and the local network.

Shape Security has announced a new product designed to protect small and medium business (SMB) websites from the growing scourge of advanced bot-based credential stuffing.

French telecom giant Orange on Tuesday announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm SecureLink.