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Website performance optimization and security firm Cloudflare has expanded its reach to mobile with the acquisition of Neumob. The agreement brings Cloudflare's global optimization network to mobile apps built with the Neumob SDK. Financial details were not disclosed.

A team of Microsoft researchers has been working on improving fuzzing techniques by using deep neural networks, and initial tests have shown promising results.

Threat intelligence platform provider ThreatQuotient announced on Monday that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $54 million to date.

Last week, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) ran Quantum Dawn IV to test the resiliency and response of the financial services industry to a major cyber incident.

Face ID, the facial biometric unlocking technology included in Apple’s recently launched iPhone X, can be bypassed using a mask, security researchers have discovered.

The VMware vCenter Server management software is affected by a couple of moderate severity vulnerabilities that can be exploited for obtaining information and remote denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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Following an increase in Android malware and adware that abuse accessibility services, Google has decided to take action against all apps that misuse the feature.

A China-linked cyber espionage group that may have been active since as early as 2010 has developed a new piece of malware that it has used in highly targeted attacks launched over the past year.

Bug bounty programs and a vulnerability disclosure policy have helped the U.S. Department of Defense patch thousands of security holes in its systems.

Police in the US state of Delaware are poised to deploy "smart" cameras in cruisers to help authorities detect a vehicle carrying a fugitive, missing child or straying senior.

Enigma Software, supplier of software known as SpyHunter, has a notice on its website: "Malwarebytes Inc., the maker of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware ("MBAM") and AdwCleaner, is intentionally blocking SpyHunter and RegHunter for what we believe are competitive reasons... We have taken legal action against Malwarebytes and are seeking remedies for this unfair conduct."

Several popular antivirus products are affected by a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to escalate privileges on a compromised system by abusing the quarantine feature, a researcher warned on Friday.

As a former CISO and as head of an analyst team at a threat intelligence vendor, I’ve written a lot about cyber threat intelligence - what it is/should be, the different types of threat intel (strategic, operational, tactical), raw intelligence versus finished intel, how it can be used, how threat intel fits into your overall cybersecurity program, and so on.