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The online gaming networks for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox consoles -- hot gifts this Christmas -- went dark in what hackers said was a coordinated attack.The disruption started Christmas Day and went into Friday, PlayStation and Xbox said on their Twitter feeds, adding that they were working to restore service.

South Korea on Thursday ruled out the possibility that a recent string of cyber-attacks on its nuclear power operator could cause a malfunction at any of the country's 23 atomic reactors.

Researchers at Trend Micro revealed details of an attack against a major Korean utility company hit by malware designed to wipe the master boot records (MBR) of compromised computers.

Sony Pictures is now streaming "The Interview", a movie that outraged North Korea by poking fun at dictator Kim Jong-Un and the isolated nation.

New research from Vanson Bourne found that more than three quarters of organizations in the United States and U.K. have suffered a domain name system (DNS) attack.

It would be hard to look back at 2014, without discussing some of the major mobile security events that occurred. From Home Depot to Walmart to Walgreens, mobile data security made headlines due to the presence of basic security flaws that put mobile data at risk.

North Korea's Internet was on the fritz for a second day Tuesday. But the US is staying silent on whether it launched a cyber attack as payback for the hacking of Sony Pictures. And in the murky world of cyber security, experts say there are several plausible scenarios for why North Korea suddenly went dark, stressing it's impossible to know exactly what happened.

Researchers with EMC's RSA Security Division have pulled back the covers from the Backoff malware in a new report.

A server that lacked two-factor authentication was the gateway hackers used to breach JPMorgan Chase this year, according to a report. 

For far too long, the conversation around cloud and security has revolved around Shadow IT, the use of cloud applications that IT doesn’t know about. The reality, however, is that 90% of corporate data will reside in the SaaS applications that are approved for business use. That’s where the attention of IT organizations should focus on – how to extend visibility, governance and protection to these SaaS applications.

The visitors of several official Afghan government websites might have had their devices infected with malware after a threat group believed to have ties to China compromised the sites through a content delivery network (CDN), a new report has revealed.

Staying on top of your organization’s security needs is no easy task. The constant updates, patches, vulnerability assessments and maintenance activities can quickly overwhelm an IT department or security team and delay critical projects. To-do lists end up growing at an incredible pace, and even those who are able to keep up are having a hard time measuring whether their efforts truly made the organization safer.

In response to the increase in online payment fraud, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published last week a set of minimum security requirements that payment services providers in the European Union are expected to implement by August 1, 2015.

Security experts say that a new version of the increasingly notorious Vawtrak malware has been spotted with significant code and configuration changes.