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Today at Google I/O, the company announced a new system for Android that it hopes will urge developers to seek fewer excessive permissions for mobile applications.

The Angler Exploit Kit has added a new Flash exploit to its arsenal, and is dropping Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware.

Apple announced that it will block out of date versions of Flash Player after a major update to the Adobe software two weeks ago.

Human machine interface software from Rockwell Automation has been patched, protecting users from a vulnerability in the way stored passwords are protected.

Microsoft security products will begin detecting software containing search protection functions and classifying it as malicious on June 1.

Influential security researchers have begun publishing their comments, objections and concerns regarding the proposed U.S. export control rules under the Wassenaar Arrangement.

Users of the Internal Revenue Service’s Get Transcript service are at risk for identity theft after hackers accessed tax records belonging to more than 100,000.

Nitlove and several new versions of PoSeidon can be added to the growing heap of point-of-sale (POS) malware discovered this year.

Researchers from Core Security were able to exploit a security vulnerability in Windows' group policy -- MS15-011 -- that was patched by Microsoft in February.