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Hackers breached Microsoft email services (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN) and accessed user accounts after compromising a support agent’s credentials, Microsoft has confirmed.

Ecuador said on Monday it has suffered 40 million cyber attacks on the webpages of public institutions since stripping Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of political asylum.

Garfield County, Utah, was recently affected by ransomware. Local government is an increasingly attractive target for criminals because of its high dependence on information technology, and generally poor security. Elected officials are under constant pressure to spend available funds on something visible and appealing to the electorate rather than unseen technology.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability patched recently by Microsoft in its Windows operating system had been exploited by malicious actors to deliver a PowerShell backdoor.

A new type of DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature has been detected following a major attack emanating from primarily Chinese-speaking mobile users of the QQBrowser.

Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China's high-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus.

A security configuration framework for Windows 10 unveiled by Microsoft this week defines five different levels of discrete prescriptive security configurations.

Matrix.org had its systems hacked and its website defaced by someone who decided to disclose the security issues found during the attack.

Two of the most powerful Ministers in the UK government, the secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the secretary of state for the Home Department, have published a document, titled Online Harms White Paper, designed to control content on the internet.

Facebook and Google have wrapped up the first edition of their BountyCon Asia-Pacific bug hunting conference, which resulted in $120,000 awarded in bounties.

The NCAA Tournament ended just a few days ago and the pain or exuberance, depending on your bracket picks, is still fresh. As I watched hours of college basketball, I was struck by something the most successful teams have in common: they don’t get distracted by all 67 other teams in the tournament or even all the teams in their bracket. If they tried to prepare for every potential opponent, they’d get nowhere fast.

News broke this week that the threat group behind the notorious malware known as Triton, Trisis and HatMan has targeted another critical infrastructure facility.

Two Romanians have been convicted in the United States for their role in a longstanding online fraud operation that incurred millions of dollars in losses.

Patches released this week by VMware for its ESXi, Workstation and Fusion products address “important” denial-of-service (DoS) and information disclosure vulnerabilities affecting graphics components.

Using cryptography and virtual drop boxes, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks created a revolutionary new model for media to lure massive digitized leaks from whistleblowers, exposing everything from US military secrets to wealthy tax-dodgers' illicit offshore accounts.

Google Boosts Security of Google CloudGoogle this week announced a series of tools meant to increase the overall security of Google Cloud and improve customer trust in the service.

The US government has regarded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a dangerous national security threat ever since he and his organization opened a decade-long effort to expose US secrets -- from military files to embarrassing Democratic Party emails during the 2016 election.

Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would allow Moscow to cut the country's internet traffic from foreign servers, in a key second reading paving the way for legislation that activists fear is a step towards online isolation.

Palo Alto-based enterprise IoT security firm Armis on Thursday announced that it raised $65 million in a Series C funding round.The latest funding round, which brings the total raised by Armis to $112 million, will help the company accelerate investments in engineering, marketing and sales.

A large portion of the infrastructure related to a Middle Eastern threat actor known as Gaza Cybergang was taken down after their latest operations were uncovered, Kaspersky Lab’s security researchers reveal.