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Open source components have been increasingly used by developers, but failure to patch vulnerabilities in this type of software can pose serious risks.

The EU's new data protection rules that enter into force later this month are having an impact around the world as firms, including in the United States and China, move to comply.

The Dutch government is phasing out the use of anti-virus software made by Russian firm Kaspersky Lab amid fears of possible spying, despite vehement denials by the Moscow-based cyber security company.

An update released over the weekend for the desktop version of the privacy-focused communications app Signal patches a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited for remote code execution with no user interaction required.

Recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks showed evidence of a new method being used to bypass existing defenses by obfuscating source port data, Imperva says.

Cybercriminals Continue to Rely on Human Interaction to Conduct Wide Range of Attacks

Symantec shares gained nearly 10 percent on Monday in anticipation of a conference call that promised to provide more information regarding the internal investigation announced by the company last week.

Updates released on Monday by Adobe for its Acrobat, Reader and Photoshop products patch nearly 50 vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw that has been exploited in the wild.

Hackers have stolen an unknown amount of money from banks in Mexico in a series of cyber attacks on the country's interbank payments system, an official said Monday.

The accelerating digitization of business, driven by compelling commercial arguments, is driving the integration of new information technology (IT) networks with older operational technology (OT) networks. This is introducing new security risks to old technology and old technology practices -- and where the OT is driving a critical manufacturing plant, the new risk is from nation-state actors as well as traditional cyber criminals.

All is not well in the app ecosphere. That ecosphere comprises a large number of useful apps that benefit users, and an unknown number of apps that deceive users. The latter are sometimes described potentially unwanted programs, or PUPs. Both categories need to make money: good apps are upfront with how this is achieved; deceptive apps hide the process.

Facebook said Monday it has suspended "around 200" apps on its platform as part of an investigation into misuse of private user data.

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A recently detected PowerShell backdoor can steal information and execute various commands on the infected machines.