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Hackers managed to compromise Titan Manufacturing and Distributing’s computer system and steal customer payment card data for nearly a year. 

Internet infrastructure giant Akamai Technologies on Monday announced the acquisition of Janrain, a Portland, Oregon-based company specializing in identity and access management (IAM).

Healthcare management provider Humana recently revealed that hackers accessed information of individuals who had applied for a Humana health insurance policy via Bankers Life.With millions of customers in the United States, the Louisville, Kentucky-based for-profit health insurance company ranked 56 on the Fortune 500 list. 

New Phishing Template Targets Users of Major U.S. BankA phishing template used in recent attacks targeting the users of a major U.S. bank uses fake fonts to evade detection, Proofpoint security researchers warn.

BlackBerry on Monday announced that manufacturers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices can now use the company’s technology to improve the safety and security of their products.

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) plans to make a reverse engineering tool that it has developed available for free public use in the coming months. 

China is Conducting a Low and Slow Cyberwar, Attempting to Stay Under the Radar and Maneuver the Global Economy

The German government revealed last week that information on hundreds of politicians and celebrities was leaked online via Twitter.

Germany’s IT security agency on Saturday defended its response to the leaking of hundreds of politicians’ private information, after lawmakers accused it of failing to inform them quickly enough.

The US tech industry is weathering a crisis of confidence over data protection and a difficult geopolitical situation, with record sales expected in 2019, organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show said Sunday.The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) predicted that US retail revenue in the sector would climb to a record high $398 billion this year.

Hundreds of thousands of users ended up with spyware on their devices after downloading seemingly legitimate applications from Google Play, Trend Micro security researchers have discovered. 

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has unveiled its first Bill: HR1, dubbed the 'For the People Act'. It has little chance of getting through the Republican-controlled Congress, and even less chance of being signed into law by President Trump.

Fewer Marriott guest records that previously feared were compromised in a massive data breach, but the largest hotel chain in the world confirmed Friday that approximately 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers were accessed.

A serious denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability impacts several industrial automation products from Japanese electrical engineering and software company Yokogawa Electric.

Dataresolution.net, a cloud hosting provider headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, CA and with data centers in Los Angeles CA, Reston VA, London UK, Hamilton Bermuda, and Canada, was infected with ransomware on Christmas Eve, 2018. It appears that the firm declined to pay any ransom, and is reconstituting the files manually and from backups.

Attacks against automated teller machines (ATMs) are nothing new, for obvious reasons. They are a perfect target for both conventional thieves and hackers, standing at the intersection of physical theft and cyber crime. Particularly in the developing world, ATMs often lack basic cybersecurity precautions, with archaic operating systems and minimal authentication requirements within the machines.

A vulnerability in Skype for Android allows an unauthenticated attacker to view photos and contacts, and even open links in the browser, a security researcher has discovered.

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data, the government said Friday."Personal data and documents belonging to hundreds of politicians and public figures were published on the internet," government spokeswoman Martina Fietz told reporters.

Recently addressed vulnerabilities in the popular macOS cleanup application CleanMyMac X could allow attackers to modify the file system as root, Cisco Talos security researchers reveal.

Adobe’s first round of security updates for 2019 resolve two critical vulnerabilities in the company’s Acrobat and Reader products, but administrators should not be too concerned about the flaws being exploited in the wild any time soon.