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Apple, Google, and Facebook are playing a game of high-stakes global brinksmanship around who has rights to control their data, which impacts their European growth prospects, business models, and ultimately stock valuations.

Data breaches, dangerous vulnerabilities and more dominated the headlines this year in cybersecurity.

Cybercriminals are repackaging legitimate HTML5 applications into Android malware and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), according to Trend Micro.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking for experienced and certified experts that could become cyber special agents, the agency announced on Monday.

Trend Micro researchers have come across a 64-bit version of Havex, a remote access tool (RAT) that has been used in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at industrial control systems (ICS).

Researchers at Trend Micro say attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in Android's WebView browser in order to compromise Facebook accounts. 

A researcher has found a way to upload potentially malicious code to Facebook's servers by hiding it inside a harmless-looking Microsoft Word document file.

The prevailing narrative for the recent devastating cyber-attack against entertainment giant Sony sounds like a script: a small country angry about a movie about to be released sends a group of elite hackers to stop the film release. But some experts don't believe that's what happened.

A top South Korean official offered Monday to hold high-level talks with North Korea in January, as Pyongyang battles growing pressure over human rights and a cyber row with the US. Ryoo Kihl-Jae, the South's unification minister in charge of North Korean affairs, said he was willing to meet in Seoul or the North's capital Pyongyang for the rare high-level talks.

The official website of the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) was hacked just before Christmas and set up to serve malware to visitors, researchers at security firm Cyphort reported.

People who know me know that I love to ask questions. In fact, people sometimes ask me: “Why do you always answer a question with a question?” To this I reply: “Why not?”

For identifying and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities in Google App Engine for Java, researchers at Poland-based research company Security Explorations have been rewarded by Google with a total of $50,000.

2014 was a very busy year for hackers. For those keeping a tally of data breaches, the year offered no respite.

North Korea on Saturday called US President Barack Obama a "monkey" for inciting cinemas to screen a comedy featuring a fictional plot to kill its leader, and blamed Washington for an Internet blackout this week.

According to a new market research report from MarketsandMarkets, the global Industrial Control System (ICS) Security Market is estimated to reach $8.73 billion in 2019. Estimated to be $6.18 billion in 2014, the increase represents an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.2% from 2014 to 2019.