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Indonesia will deport 153 Chinese nationals arrested for alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar cyber fraud ring targeting wealthy businessmen and politicians in China, police said Tuesday.

American pharmaceutical giant Merck revealed in its financial results announcement for the second quarter of 2017 that a recent cyberattack has disrupted its worldwide operations, including manufacturing, research and sales.

The Amazon Echo is an always-listening device designed to play music, answer questions via the Alexa voice service, and control connected home devices such as WeMo, Hive and Nest. Now researchers have demonstrated that while it listens to you, attackers could be listening to you as well.

One of the most bizarre beginnings in movie history involved a young Paul Newman decapitating a streetful of Duncan Model 50 parking meters in the existential-hero classic, “Cool Hand Luke.” Those old Duncan Model 50 parking meters were coin-operated and were the American standard for decades, but they had some drawbacks.

A threat group said to be associated with Iranian government-directed cyber operations is believed to be operating a fake online persona to target organizations in the Middle East with malware, SecureWorks researchers say.

Microsoft has released patches for several important vulnerabilities affecting Outlook, the professional email and calendar application included in the Office suite.

Vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in telematics control units (TCUs) from Continental, which are used by several major car manufacturers, can expose vehicles to local and remote hacker attacks.

HBO said Monday its network was victimized by a cyberattack, and media reports said the hack resulted in the leak of a script of the popular series "Games of Thrones" and content from other productions.

A hacker or group of hackers claimed today to have breached FireEye's Mandiant. In a Pastebin post, they claimed, "It was fun to be inside a giant company named 'Mandiant'... 'Mandiant' knows how deep we breached into its infrastructure."

Security researchers at SafeBreach have created proof-of-concept (PoC) malware that can exfiltrate data from endpoints that don’t have a direct Internet connection by exploiting cloud-enhanced anti-virus (AV) agents.

Several low-cost Android device models were recently found to feature the Triada Trojan built into their firmware, Dr. Web security researchers say.

Over the last few years, business email compromise (BEC) scams have rocketed -- costing victims $1.45 billion in 2016 alone (FBI report). Now a new related threat has emerged -- the mortgage phishing scam -- that seems likely to follow a similar trajectory.

After several months of debate, Google has released its final proposal in the case of Symantec’s certificate authority (CA) business. All Symantec-issued certificates must be replaced by the time Google releases Chrome 70 next year.

The United States Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) issued an alert on Friday to warn relevant industries about a vulnerability affecting the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus standard.

The Deep & Dark Web remains most familiar to cybersecurity and IT teams, yet its relevancy for all business functions across the enterprise cannot be overstated.