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This year’s mobile-focused Pwn2Own hacking competition organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) will include a new category for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said late Tuesday that the leading social network and other internet firms are in an arms race to defend democracy. Zuckerberg's Washington Post op-ed came on the eve of hearings during which lawmakers are expected to grill top executives from Facebook and Twitter.

CrowdStrike security researchers have observed renewed activity associated with GOBLIN PANDA, a threat actor mainly targeting entities in Southeast Asia.

One of the best comedic routines I've ever had the opportunity to hear is Louis C.K.'s "Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy" piece. He makes some very clear if not painful points about how we as human beings in a modern society take things for granted. For example, we complain when the WiFi on the airplane goes out.

Android device details are being exposed to running applications via Wi-Fi broadcasts in the mobile operating system, Nightwatch Cybersecurity has discovered.

Privacy and human rights organizations expressed concern Tuesday after a coalition of intelligence agencies renewed a call for technology companies to allow so-called "backdoor" access to encrypted content and devices.

Google last week took the wraps off Tink, an open source, multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic library designed to help simplify common encryption operations.Under development for the past two years, the cryptographic library has been available on GitHub since its early days and has already attracted a few external contributors. 

No Automated Tool is Capable of Providing the Full Context in Which a Threat Was Developed and Deployed

Malicious actors could take control of thousands of 3D printers that can be accessed directly from the Internet without requiring any authentication.According to the SANS Internet Storm Center, a Shodan search reveals over 3,700 instances of OctoPrint interfaces exposed to the Web, including nearly 1,600 in the United States.

Aligning security policy with business practices is generally considered to be a key imperative for a successful company. This must necessarily start with security teams understanding the business, and business leaders understanding security requirements.

PARIS (AP) — One day late last year, Qatari newspaper editor Abdullah Al-Athbah came home, removed the SIM card from his iPhone 7 and smashed it to pieces with a hammer.

Nearly a year after Russian government hackers meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro zeroed in on a new sign of trouble: a group of suspect websites.

Twitter on Thursday started requiring those behind hot-button issue ads in the US to be vetted as part of the effort by the social network to thwart stealth campaigns aimed at influencing politics.

Oracle informed customers over the weekend that some of the company’s products are affected by a critical Apache Struts 2 vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild.

Google announced late last week that it’s preparing a new verification program designed to keep tech support scams off its advertising platform.