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Crowdsourced security testing company Bugcrowd launched a new program on Wednesday designed for organizations looking to run customized bug bounties.

Researchers at NSFOCUS say they observed a significant decrease in May of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. 

Morgan Marquis-Boire and Sergey Golovanov Present Research on HackingTeam’s Remote Control System “Galileo” in London on June 24

Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing flaws in trusted mobile apps and services in an effort to distribute malware, McAfee Labs revealed in a threat report published on Tuesday.

Google is developing its own version of OpenSSL, tentatively dubbed BoringSSL.

The popular online magazine AskMen has been compromised and abused to distribute a piece of malware, Websense reported on Monday.

The Havex remote access Trojan (RAT) is being used in cyber espionage operations aimed at industrial control systems, according to recent reports.

OTTAWA - Lawyers at Canada's justice department were fooled into providing confidential information by responding to phishing emails far more than average Internet users, according to security test results released Monday. According to Canadian government figures, 156 million phishing emails are sent worldwide on a daily basis.

BAGHDAD - A powerful jihadist group pushing toward Baghdad is waging a parallel war online, flooding social media with updates and riding the football World Cup frenzy to spread its message with corporate-like sophistication.

The Heartbleed vulnerability is still leaking the security out of the Internet. A scan of the Internet by Errata Security turned about 300,000 servers still vulnerable to the flaw. The number is half as many as the firm discovered when it did a similar scan in April, but is evidence nonetheless that many sites are falling behind when it comes to patching.

Information security firm Dataguise has released new solution that enables organizations to easily declare policies, discover sensitive data, view and track entitlements, and audit access to sensitive data across transactional databases, data warehouses, file shares, Apache Hadoop, and other Big Data sources.

Security vendor Fortinet released a survey that shows homeowners want to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT), but are worried about privacy and security.

Triumfant, a provider endpoint-focused security monitoring solutions, today announced its support for Mac OS X. Announced at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, the new endpoint security agent provides real-time detection and automatic remediation of malware and other sophisticated attacks occurring in-memory or on a hard drive, the company said.

Systems and security management company Tanium announced on Sunday that it has secured a massive $90 million in funding from Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Microsoft has launched a limited preview of a new security and threat information exchange platform that enables users to set up their own independent threat sharing communities to exchange information such as suspected malicious URLs or IP addresses and analysis of malware.