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Iran poses a growing threat to America's computer networks and has launched increasingly sophisticated digital attacks and spying on US targets, according to a new report released Thursday.

The attackers behind Operation Pawn Storm continue to evolve their infrastructure and tactics as they swarm their chosen targets.

D-Link has failed to properly fix vulnerabilities affecting several router models, according to a researcher. The networking equipment manufacturer says it’s currently working on addressing the issues.

Cyber extortions have taken on multiple forms – encrypting data and holding it hostage, stealing data and threatening exposure, and denying access to data.

A high severity vulnerability has been found in Cache Cleaner, a Cisco Secure Desktop component that was deprecated by the company more than two years ago. Cisco is not releasing patches because the product is no longer supported, but the company has provided a workaround.

IBM on Thursday launched a new threat intelligence sharing platform that allows enterprise security teams and researchers to collaborate on security incidents and sift through troves of cyber threat intelligence data.

With less than three weeks to go until Suits and Spooks London 2015 kicks off, the agenda is nearly finalized. Our first 2-day international event will host experts in cyber warfare, intelligence, advanced persistent threats, sophisticated malware, and political issues.

Google has patched a vulnerability in YouTube that could have been exploited to copy any comment from one video to another, researchers revealed on Wednesday.The security hole was identified by Egypt-based researchers Ibrahim El-Sayed and Ahmed Aboul-Ela while analyzing the comment approval feature in YouTube.

Dropbox is the latest major company to turn to the power of the hacker community in an effort to ensure that its services are vulnerability-free.The online file sharing giant announced on Wednesday the launch of a bug bounty program via the HackerOne platform.

Two hundred and ninety-five – that is the combined total of days attackers were actively exploiting the five most targeted zero-days last year before they were patched, according to a new report from Symantec.

Prakash Panjwani Named CEO at WatchGuard Technologies Seattled-based network security firm WatchGuard Technologies announced on Wednesday that Prakash Panjwani has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.

Various types of vulnerabilities have been identified in SearchBlox, the enterprise search solution built on top of Apache Lucene/Solr and Elasticsearch.

Hellsing APT Strikes Back After Being Targeted by the Naikon GroupA small cyber espionage group might have remained under the radar, but their activities were exposed when they decided to retaliate against an attack launched by a different advanced persistent threat (APT) group.

Oracle released a security update with a whopping 98 fixes, including 17 for Oracle Fusion Middleware and 26 for Oracle MySQL.

Hackers bypassed insufficient safeguards to make off with data on 100,000 contacts held on French state TV computers, broadcasters said Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday and involved the theft of "a limited amount of personal data (names, postal and e-mail addresses and/or telephone numbers)," France Televisions said in a statement.