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Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Tuesday said the company is devoted to protecting people's privacy, with data encrypted and locked away on servers even in China.

Facebook has shared another update on the hacker attack disclosed last week. The social media giant says there is no evidence that the attackers accessed any third-party apps.Facebook revealed on September 28 that it had reset the access tokens for 90 million accounts, including 50 million that were directly impacted and 40 million deemed at risk.

A recently observed variant of the KONNI malware appears tied to a remote access Trojan (RAT) previously attributed to a North Korean actor, Palo Alto Networks security researchers say.

The newly released Foxit Reader 9.3 brings along patches for over 100 security flaws, including some that could result in remote code execution.

Emeryville, CA-based endpoint security and systems management firm Tanium announced on Tuesday that it has raised an additional $200 million through the sale of common stock, which raises the company’s pre-money valuation to $6.5 billion.

Twitter on Monday announced that it has made some changes in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections in the United States. The changes include updated rules that target fake accounts and hackers.

Although regulations may feel like a burden, their influence should be viewed as wholly positive. Firstly, they establish norms and standards, a baseline for good practice which individual companies can use to set their own benchmarks. Secondly, they raise public awareness of these standards so that customers can hold corporates to account when they don’t meet them. 

An iPhone enthusiast has disclosed yet another method for bypassing the iPhone lockscreen. The latest technique has been confirmed to work on the new iPhone XS running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 12.

Google this week announced a series of policy changes and updates to improve the overall security of Chrome extensions.

The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday announced that it’s investing up to $28 million in tools and technologies that will improve the resilience and cybersecurity of the power grid and oil and gas infrastructure.

Adobe on Monday released updates for the Windows and macOS versions of its Acrobat products to address tens of vulnerabilities, including critical issues that allow arbitrary code execution.

Fileless malware attacks, or incidents where the malicious payload doesn’t touch the disk, but is executed directly in memory instead, are on the rise, Microsoft says.

FruitFly, a piece of Mac malware that infected thousands of machines over the course of more than 13 years, was being distributed via poorly protected external services.

Facebook revealed last week that malicious actors may have obtained access tokens for 50 million accounts after exploiting several bugs related to the “Vi

Cyberattacks leveraging the remote desktop protocol (RDP) have been on the rise for the past couple of years, fueled by the emergence of dark markets selling RDP access, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns.

Facebook is at the centre of controversy yet again after admitting that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers.Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said engineers discovered the breach on Tuesday, and patched it on Thursday night.

A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop results in the end-user public and private IP addresses being leaked during a call, a security researcher has discovered.

California Governor Jerry Brown last week signed the country’s first Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity law, along with a controversial state-level net neutrality law.

The PureVPN client for Windows is impacted by two vulnerabilities that result in user credential leak, a Trustwave security researcher has discovered.