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US fast food restaurant chain Wendy’s announced recently that it has reached a settlement with the thousands of financial institutions impacted by the data breach suffered by the company in 2015 and 2016.

Proof-of-concept (PoC) code is now publicly available for a recently disclosed container escape vulnerability impacting popular cloud platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and numerous Linux distributions.

Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way organizations do business. Mobile access, advanced analytics and cloud have increased both operational agility and revenue growth through data availability, workforce enablement, and improved customer experiences. As a result, organizations are projected to spend $1.97 trillion on digital technologies and services by 2022, according to IDC.

Network-attached Storage (NAS) device maker QNAP has published a security advisory to alert of malware targeting its NAS devices. 

Using ransomware to hold computers hostage would draw stiffer penalties under legislation — prompted in part by attacks on Maryland hospitals over the past few years — state lawmakers are considering.

A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday.

Australia on Monday said a "sophisticated state actor" had hacked the country's main political parties and parliament, just weeks before a closely fought election.

Eight applications designed to mine for crypto-currency without users’ knowledge made their way into the Microsoft Store, Symantec has discovered. 

A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran despite warnings from the FBI has been charged with revealing classified information to the Tehran government, including the code name and secret mission of a Pentagon program, prosecutors said.

The director of Homeland Security's cybersecurity agency says officials are working to secure the 2020 presidential election.Christopher Krebs says he's trying to shift focus from what happened in 2016 with Russian interference to what could happen next. He's trying to get election security officials to think ahead and prepare for possibilities.

Eleven organizations are asking major retailers in the United States to stop selling Internet-connected devices that don’t meet minimum security and privacy requirements.

Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said Thursday in response to media reports of the security tactic.

Malicious actors have been hacking WordPress websites by exploiting vulnerabilities in a fairly popular plugin called WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder.

Carbon Black’s security researchers recently discovered a new variant of the Shlayer malware that targets macOS versions ranging from 10.10.5 to 10.14.3.

Germany is to join the ranks of NATO countries making its cyber warfare skills available to the alliance to help fight hacking and electronic warfare, officials said on Thursday.

Google revealed recently that it paid out a total of $3.4 million for flaws reported in 2018 by researchers through its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP).The $3.4 million was awarded for 1,319 reports submitted by 317 researchers from 78 countries. The largest single reward was $41,000 and $181,000 were donated to charity, the company said.

More than 5 billion records were exposed last year through 6,515 publicly disclosed data breaches, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. 

Cybersecurity asset management company Axonius this week announced that it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. 

Former Air Force intelligence officer, Monica Elfriede Witt, has been charged with betraying her oath to protect and defend the United States and providing secret U.S. information to the Iranian government.