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The systems of the United States Department of Energy were breached more than 150 times between October 2010 and October 2014, USA Today reported this week based on records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

A young American who assumed the online identity of an Australian jihadist has been arrested for an alleged plan to bomb a September 11 memorial event, authorities said.

Updated "Sideloading" Process in iOS 9 Boosts App Security

Japan-based industrial automation and control company Yokogawa Electric has started releasing patches to address three critical vulnerabilities affecting many of the company’s industrial control system (ICS) products.According to an advisory published by Yokogawa on Thursday, the vulnerabilities are related to network communication functions.

With enough data, any problem can be understood. Solving it is another matter.

A new Android screening-locking malware targeting mainly users in the United States has been discovered by ESET researchers, who say this is the first ransomware to change a smartphone’s PIN security code.

IBM reported in August that its researchers had come across CoreBot, a new piece of malware designed to steal data from infected devices. Initially, the threat only had limited capabilities, but IBM now says CoreBot has become a full-fledged banking Trojan.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS), a non-profit health insurer based in Rochester, New York, revealed on Thursday that malicious actors had access to its IT systems for more than a year and a half.

A top US intelligence official warned Thursday of an evolving cyber security threat that will see criminals not just stealing data, but actively altering or deleting it.

Cisco has revealed the existence of denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in several of its security products. Customers are advised to apply workarounds since software updates are not available for most of the issues.

Argus Cyber Security Raises $26 Million in Series B Funding Round To Help Protect Vehicles From Cyber Attacks

Some time ago, I met with an organization that had asked to speak with me because of my experience in the security operations realm. After a few minutes, it became apparent that the organization had many of the same challenges I often see in organizations that have immature security operations functions.

North Korea-based threat actors are suspected of being behind an attack leveraging a zero-day vulnerability in South Korea’s popular Hangul Word Processor (HWP).Developed by South Korea-based office software provider Hancom, Hangul is a word processing application that is widely used within the country’s government and public institutions.

Network attached storage (NAS) company Synology has released updates for its Video Station and Download Station applications to patch several vulnerabilities identified by Dutch security company Securify.

John McAfee, a software pioneer who later became a fugitive from justice in Central America, unveiled plans Wednesday to run for the US presidency.