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Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.

The adversarial use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in malicious ways by attackers may be embryonic, but the prospect is becoming real. It's evolutionary: AI and ML gradually have found their way out of the labs and deployed for security defenses, and now they're increasingly being weaponized to overcome these defenses by subverting the same logic and underlying functionality.

Cloud-based email security solution utilizes the open source methodology for securing business email, recognized by many as the best approach to the problem of maintaining security in the relentlessly dynamic environment of the Internet.

Security researchers have uncovered a swathe of serious vulnerabilities in a firewall system developed by CUJO which has been designed to prevent cyberattackers from infiltrating home networks.

An Interview with Dave Wreski, CEO of Guardian Digital

A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he's selling on a dark web marketplace.

As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for hactivism" come forward for the first time to claim him as one of their own.

The first Open Networking Summit was held in October 2011 at Stanford University and described as a premier event about OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)". Here we are seven and half years later and I'm constantly amazed at both how far we've come since then, and at how quickly a traditionally slow-moving industry like telecommunications is embracing change and innovation powered by open source.

Google's upcoming Android version, currently referred to only as Android Q, will arrive later this summer with a trove of privacy enhancements.

In January 2018 a group of hackers, now thought to be working for the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus, attempted to steal $110 million from the Mexican commercial bank Bancomext. That effort failed.

Take a look at the security headlines, and youll see report after report of businesses and large organisations being hacked.

Two separate teams of security researchers and academics from universities in Australia and Switzerland have revealed today vulnerabilities in the e-voting system that the Swiss voting commission plans to roll out for future elections.

There were 12,449 new, authentic breaches and leaks in 2018, an increase of 424% from the year prior. But the average breach size was 216,884 records 4.7 times smaller than in 2017.

WordPress-based shopping sites are under attack from a hacker group abusing a vulnerability in a shopping cart plugin to plant backdoors and take over vulnerable sites.

Facebook has filed a suit against two Ukrainian developers for creating Facebook apps and browser extensions that harvested user data and injected ads into users' timelines.

Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, paid $400,000 to cyber-criminals this week to get rid of a ransomware infection and regain access to their IT systems.

American software company Citrix disclosed today a security breach during which hackers accessed the company's internal network.

Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson testified in front of a US Senate subcommittee yesterday, revealing new details about a security breach the hotel chain disclosed last year.

Data breaches are so common now that your eyes may tend to gloss over the news of yet-another public exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) and customer records.

At the endless booths of this week's RSA security trade show in San Francisco, an overflowing industry of vendors will offer any visitor an ad nauseam array of "threat intelligence" and "vulnerability management" systems.