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Paris - French television network TV5Monde said Wednesday it had been hacked by individuals claiming to belong to the Islamic State group, bringing television broadcasts to a halt and taking over its websites and Facebook page.

Security researchers spotted a Google Chrome extension recently that may have leaked personal information belonging to more than a million users.

The White House said Wednesday it would not name those behind a cyber attack on official Washington targets last October, after reports blamed Russia."Our investigators have concluded that it's not in our best interest to identify the entity that may be responsible for this specific activity of concern," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

A vulnerability that can be leveraged for arbitrary code execution has been found in a tool used for integrating industrial IP surveillance solutions developed by Moxa, a Taiwan-based company that specializes in industrial networking, computing, and automation solutions.

Beirut - The US embassy in Beirut is supposed to reach out to Lebanon's residents, but scammers have reportedly taken advantage, impersonating the ambassador in a bid to solicit money. In an email and postings on social media on Wednesday, the embassy warned that messages seeking money, purportedly from ambassador David Hale, were the work of fraudsters.

Researchers warn that the Pinterest and Yammer social networking applications for iOS fail to validate server certificates, allowing malicious actors to eavesdrop on users’ communications. New versions of the apps have been released to address the issue.

A little something old, a little something new – according to security firm Websense, those words could very well be the battle cry of today's attackers.

Despite increased investments in preventive security measures, many organizations are losing the war against cyber criminals.The data breaches at Target, Home Depot, Staples, Michaels, Kmart, eBay, Anthem, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, were just the tip of the iceberg.

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel), said on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chicago-based data security and compliance solutions firm Trustwave or $810 million in cash.

Ever wonder how quickly stolen data is accessed once it hits the Dark Web? Researchers at Bitglass decided to find out.

Mozilla has disabled the opportunistic encryption feature in its Firefox browser after a flaw was discovered in the browser's implementation of HTTP Alternative Services.

Cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure companies have long since moved out of the realm of science fiction and into reality, and a new report from Trend Micro and the Organization of the American States (OAS) shows just how much.

iSIGHT Partners, a provider of cyber threat intelligence services, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Idaho-based Critical Intelligence, a provider of threat intelligence for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) owners and operators.