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Google is making it easier for G Suite administrators to access notifications, alerts, and actions by bringing them all together in a single place with the launch of a new alert center.

It’s the nature of security operations: the worse the situation, the more you need everything to be working perfectly. Any issues with your program need to be figured out ahead of time, because in the heat of the moment, there isn’t any time to solve problems.

Virtual private network (VPN) service providers ProtonVPN and NordVPN have made another attempt to patch a potentially serious privilege escalation vulnerability that they first tried to address a few months ago.

The formation of a professional body to provide standards of excellence within cybersecurity practitioners has been mooted for many years. Now the UK government has proposed the development of an institution for “developing the cybersecurity profession, including through achieving Royal Chartered status by 2020.”

The infamous Mirai and Gafgyt Internet of Things (IoT) botnets are targeting vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and the SonicWall Global Management System (GMS), Palo Alto Networks has discovered.

It took Equifax 76 days to detect the massive 2017 data breach, despite the fact that attackers had conducted roughly 9,000 unauthorized queries on its databases, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Google has released its September 2018 security patches for Android, which resolves more than 50 vulnerabilities in the operating system.

The market for insurance against cyber threats will double by 2020 to over 8 billion dollars, German reinsurance giant Munich Re told a conference in Monaco on Sunday.

A 35-year-old Russian was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday to answer criminal charges over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones, officials announced.

A recently discovered exploit kit (EK) has been used in a campaign targeting users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

A North Korean national has been charged by U.S. authorities over his alleged involvement in the cyberattacks carried out by the notorious Lazarus Group.

Theory Suggests we Need to Come to the Very Brink of Cyberwar Before Humanity Backs Down and Finds a Solution

Colorado, whose election systems are ranked among the nation's safest, held a cyber-security and disaster exercise Thursday for dozens of state, county and federal elections officials to reinforce the state's preparedness for, and public confidence in, November's midterm elections.

Kaspersky Lab products installed on industrial automation systems have detected over 19,000 malware samples in the first half of 2018, and the company has determined that the Internet is an increasingly significant source of attacks.

British Airways will financially compensate customers whose data were stolen in a "sophisticated" and "malicious" hack, chief executive Alex Cruz said Friday as he apologised for the fiasco.

Microsoft this week revealed plans to offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for three years after traditional support for the operating system will officially end.

ProtonMail has helped law enforcement identify one of the members of the Apophis Squad, a group that has made bomb threats and launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations.

A 34-year-old North Korean national has been charged by U.S. authorities over his alleged involvement in the cyberattacks carried out by the Lazarus Group. An affidavit filed by an FBI special agent reveals how investigators linked the man to the notorious threat actor.

British Airways said Thursday that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings between August 21 and September 5 were stolen in a data breach involving 380,000 bank cards.