Roughly 80,000 people might have been impacted by cyber attack that hit a UC Berkeley system containing Social Security and bank account numbers, the university warns.
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Apple-FBI Case Has Wide Implications
Apple and the US government are squaring off in an epic legal battle with wide-ranging implications for how technology firms must work with law enforcement.
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BlackBerry Launches Security Consulting Service
Just days before the RSA Conference in San Francisco kicked off, Canadian mobile phone maker BlackBerry announced the launch of a new Professional Cybersecurity Services practice and the acquisition of UK-based cybersecurity consulting firm Encription Limited.
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Worm Capabilities Added to FighterPOS Malware
The developers of the point-of-sale (PoS) malware known as FighterPOS have added worm capabilities to their creation, and the number of infections detected in the United States has increased over the past period.
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Google Helps News Sites Thwart DDoS Attacks
Google on Thursday announced the public launch of Project Shield, an initiative aimed at protecting news sites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, for free.
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Pentagon Boosts Spending to Fight Cyber Attacks
The Pentagon plans to spend an additional $900 million in the coming year to boost cyber defense measures, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday.
US officials are still reeling from last year's revelation that personal data from some 20 million federal employees, contractors and others had been hacked in a massive breach at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Mozilla Allows Symantec to Issue SHA-1 Certificates to Payment Processor
Mozilla has decided to allow Symantec to issue nine new SSL certificates signed using the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function to payment processor Worldpay after the company failed to upgrade devices in time.
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Over 60 Vulnerabilities Patched in Apple TV
Apple has patched more than 60 vulnerabilities with the release of Apple TV 7.2.1, including flaws that can lead to arbitrary code execution, application crashes, and information disclosure.
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Apple Asks to Block Court Order to Help Decrypt iPhone
Apple on Thursday urged a federal court to toss out an order that the company help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino attack, arguing that it was a "dangerous power."
The legal response was fired in what promised to be a landmark case pitting national security against personal privacy.
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Palo Alto Networks Fixes PAN-OS Vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Networks has released updates for PAN-OS, the operating system of its enterprise security platform, to address several vulnerabilities, including ones rated “critical” and “high” severity.
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