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The House Intelligence Committee introduced legislation Tuesday to provide liability protection for companies that share threat intelligence information with one another or the federal government.

With just over 100 days left until Windows 2003 server will no longer be supported by Microsoft, many organizations are still not prepared to migrate to a more recent server platform, a survey by Bit9+Carbon Black has found.

A new report from Akamai Technologies names China as the top source of attack traffic on the Web.

Big US technology firms joined a coalition of activists Wednesday urging Congress to pass a law scaling back government surveillance ahead of key deadline.

Hacking and data breaches have become a painful reality for businesses of all sizes and from all industries. Attackers have perfected the art of finding the weak links in an organization, and exploiting them to infiltrate the organization and steal their most important assets.

IT security solutions provider Secunia today published its annual vulnerability review. The report provides facts and details on the security flaws uncovered in 2014.

China's cyberspace administration is "complicit" in attacks on major Internet companies including Google, an anti-censorship group said Wednesday, calling on firms worldwide to strengthen their defenses. Beijing dismissed the accusation and called for all sides to "abandon accusing each other without proof".

Cybercriminals have been using the Vawtrak Trojan in an ongoing campaign targeted at Canadian online banking users, Denmark-based Heimdal Security reported on Tuesday.

It is no secret that enterprises sometimes have trouble keeping a handle on privileged users. In the wrong hands, excessive privileges can lead to data breaches and sleepless nights for IT.

Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, an Arlington, VA-based provider of threat intelligence solutions, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $20 million in new capital through a Series B round of funding.

Mozilla has released Firefox 36 updates to address the vulnerabilities presented by white-hat hackers at Pwn2Own 2015, the competition that took place last week at the CanSecWest security conference.

Twitch, the popular video game streaming service acquired by Amazon last year for $970 million, has notified customers that their account information might have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.

Palo Alto Networks today shared details of a security vulnerability in the Android operating system that could allow an attacker to hijack the installation of a what appears to be a legitimate Android application and modify or replace it with malware.

Unauthorized certificates for several Google domains were issued earlier this month by an Egypt-based company that obtained an intermediate certificate from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the search giant reported on Monday.

Having spent a considerable portion of time in the security industry, I’ve learned a thing or two along the way including that some of the lessons I took for granted earlier in my career are just wrong. Take, for example, the old analogy about the hikers and the bear. You’ve likely heard it, and odds are if you’re a security professional you’ve told it. I know I have.