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British Airways owner IAG on Thursday said that a further 185,000 customers may have had their personal details stolen in a cyber attack earlier this year.

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Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific came under pressure Thursday to explain why it had taken five months to admit it had been hacked and compromised the data of 9.4 million customers, including passport numbers and credit card details.

Cisco’s WebEx software is affected by a serious vulnerability that can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

A newly discovered piece of Android malware creates a Socks proxy on infected devices, potentially allowing access to internal networks, McAfee reports.

Google recently removed 29 applications from Google Play after learning that they were actually containing code to steal users’ banking information.

A newly discovered piece of malware targeting macOS devices is capable of injecting ads into encrypted web traffic, Malwarebytes security researchers warn.

Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said Wednesday it had suffered a major data leak affecting up to 9.4 million passengers.The airline admitted data including passport numbers, identity card numbers, email addresses and credit card details was accessed.

Enterprise cybersecurity solutions provider Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Dome9, a company that specializes in cloud security infrastructure.Check Point representatives told SecurityWeek that Dome9 was acquired for $175 million in cash, along with restricted stock units (RSUs) and stock options.

A new zero-day vulnerability in Windows was made public on Twitter by the same researcher who published an exploit for a bug in the Windows Task Scheduler at the end of August.

After compromising large websites or third-party services they use in order to steal credit card information, the Magecart hackers have now turned to vulnerable Magento extensions.

Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen as part of the biggest security breach in history.

The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that its “Hack the Pentagon” bug bounty program will run all year long and will target the organization’s high-value assets.

Google says it recently blocked a new ad fraud scheme spread across a large number of applications and websites and monetizing with numerous advertising platforms.

Firefox 63 was released on Tuesday with a new cookie policy meant to prevent cross-site tracking by effectively blocking cookies and other site data from third-party tracking resources.

Earlier this month, the State of California made headlines by passing legislation that will require hardware manufacturers to implement unique hardcoded passwords for every connected device they produce and force users to change it upon first use.

A new piece of malware is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices in an attempt to ensnare them into a botnet capable of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Sophos Labs reports.

Cybersecurity solutions provider Fortinet today announced that it has completed the acquisition of insider threat detection and response company ZoneFox.