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Thousands of instances of a temperature control system are exposed to remote attacks from the internet due to users’ failure to change default passwords and implement other security measures. read more

Federal prosecutors have indicted 20 people in a multimillion-dollar international online fraud scheme. read more

Most people still lack an understanding of best practices for passwords and other security measures, Google found.

False positives are one of the biggest problems for security controls. In malware detection they interrupt work and divert incident response away from real issues. But in ecommerce and financial...

Singapore Authorities Allege Incident Involved an InsiderInformation about more than 14,000 HIV patients included in a Singapore health registry was exposed online in what appears to be an inside...

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects...

Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, so McAfee warned consumers that cybercriminals are continuing to access personal information through weak passwords, phishing emails, connected things, malicious...

Symantec’s Norton LifeLock brand introduced Norton Privacy Manager, a new app that marks a first step in the cyber security company’s movement to help consumers begin to understand and take...

An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week.

Hanging up on the fact-checkers probably isn't the best way for a news outlet to assure them that it's trustworthy.