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Hong Kong police said Wednesday they have arrested eight people for stealing and disclosing personal information of officers online, as the city grapples with the aftermath of unprecedented...

A Georgia state agency says a cyberattack has forced it to shut down some court websites. News outlets report hackers demanding a ransom infected computers with malware at the Georgia...

Know your enemy and know your risk are two pieces of advice offered in a new report from security company eSentire.

The Threatpost team discusses the top news of the week - from a NASA cyberincident to dating app privacy issues.

Secon Cyber's Andrew Gogarty Describes High-Impact Risk Reduction StrategiesOrganizations that want to ensure they have a solid cybersecurity strategy must ensure they rigorously pursue best...

Rampant security-operations bungling allowed cyberattackers to infiltrate JPL's network, which carries human mission data.

The Kremlin on Tuesday said Moscow had been the victim of US cyberattacks "for years" following a New York Times report that Washington is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's power grid. read more

A threat actor that appears to be based in Iran is targeting a vulnerability in a popular DNA sequencing LIMS software, a security researcher had discovered. read more

Argentina and Others Suffer Power Outages; System Maintenance Disrupts TargetNot all that crashes has been hacked. To wit, this past weekend there were multiple major outages, including much of...

Britain's biggest businesses continue to inappropriately expose servers and services to the internet, putting the organizations and data at risk, according to a study by Rapid7. Tod Beardsley...