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U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai called the outage that began Thursday "completely unacceptable" because people who need help couldn't use the emergency number.

A malware attack that appears to have originated outside the US delayed the hardcopy distribution of several major newspapers, according to a report.

National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.The Colorado guard said Thursday Cyber Protection Team 174 will help the Defense Department with network security and cyber defensive operations.

In a previous column, I wrote about how evasive malware has become commoditized and described how the techniques being used in any given piece of malware had grown in number and sophistication—the layering of multiple techniques being its own form of sophistication.

Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in the South have been leaked in a hacking case, officials said Friday, exposing them to potential threats from the North.

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei expects to see a 21 percent rise in revenue for 2018, its chairman said Thursday despite a year of "unfair treatment" which saw its products banned in several countries over security concerns.

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The email caught the executive at a small company by surprise one morning in 2016. The company's owner, or so he thought, was requesting a money transfer to pay for supplies from a new vendor.

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BevMo is warning that a data breach may have allowed a hacker to steal credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who used the alcohol-seller’s website.The Concord, Calif.-based company has notified the California attorney general’s office that someone was able to plant malicious computer code on its checkout page.

It's called the "Dark Side" because the 50 workers there prefer to keep the lights low so they can dim the brightness on their computer screens.Or maybe it's because of what they do in cyber research and development.

The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns.

Vulnerabilities in the WibuKey Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution could be leveraged to disclose information, elevate privileges, or even execute code on affected systems. 

The latest Android iteration brings along a great deal of security improvements, including better encryption and authentication, Google says. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services, the Department of Justice announced. 

The government of Singapore this week announced plans to launch a second bug bounty program in collaboration with hacker-powered security platform HackerOne.

Executives may need to reconsider whether Amazon's Alexa personal assistant is listening to more than just their commands. Or perhaps the telephone conference attendee who pauses to gather details from Alexa is giving the device more than just his or her own comments.

The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan have pointed the finger at China for sophisticated cyberattacks launched by a threat group known as APT10 against organizations around the world. The U.S.

Almost since its inception in October 2016, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been considering how to formalize its vulnerability disclosure process. While the agency has a wider role in strengthening the overall cyber security of UK business, it has a more specific responsibility towards government systems.