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There has been endless discussion among security professionals about the ethics, propriety, legality, and effectiveness of corporations “hacking back” against attackers. On the other hand, there is no hesitation on the part of attackers to hack back against threat intelligence researchers who are investigating them.

Effective this week, Windows XP is no longer supported by Firefox.

MOSCOW (AP) — GRU isn't as well-known a baleful acronym as KGB or FSB. But Russia's military intelligence service is attracting increasing attention as allegations mount of devious and deadly operations on and off the field of battle.

Companies, organizations and sometimes even government agencies have been careless with the personal information they have traditionally collected. In their defense, personally identifiable information, sometimes simply called PII, wasn’t historically much of a target for hackers and criminals.

A vulnerability discovered in some of Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) may allow malicious actors to cause significant disruption to industrial control systems (ICS).

AnchorFree, the company that makes the popular Hotspot Shield virtual private network (VPN) software, on Wednesday announced that it raised $295 million in a new funding round.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former NASA contractor who allegedly threatened to publish nude photos of seven women unless they sent him other explicit pictures has been arrested at his Los Angeles home.Richard Bauer was arrested Wednesday.

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that patches are available for over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities affecting the company’s RV series, SD-WAN, Umbrella and other products.

Uber chief Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday the smartphone-summoned ride service is reinforcing safeguards for passengers and their personal information. Features to be added to the app in the coming months include "Ride Check," which uses location tracking already built into the service to detect when cars have stopped unexpectedly.

Opsview recently addressed a series of remote code-execution, command-execution and local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Opsview Monitor.

Google this week celebrates 10 years of its Chrome web browser with the release of a new version that provides users with security improvements, new features, and patches for 40 vulnerabilities.

A threat group tracked by security firm ESET as “PowerPool” has been exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability to elevate the privileges of a backdoor in targeted attacks.

How Can Security Professionals Know When to Trust and When to Hold Their Cards Close? The Byrds 1965 hit song “Turn! Turn! Turn!” has always been a favorite of mine.  The lyrics of the song (which are taken from a well known source) are as follows:

The Iran-linked cyberespionage group OilRig was recently observed using a variant of the OopsIE Trojan that was updated with new evasion capabilities, Palo Alto Networks reports.

Actively Checking Device Integrity Can Detect Changes that Evade IP-based Monitoring