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A Louisiana man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for using a computer to steal money, hacking computers to obtain passwords, and attempting to sell information …

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published a new version of its data security standard for payment software, the Payment Application Data Security Standard …

Ransomware has emerged as the predominant online security threat to home users and small businesses. Delivered through spam or phishing emails that trick users into clicking …

The CIS Critical Security Controls are a set of internationally recognized standards outlining the most important cyber hygiene actions that every organization should …

Research analysts are forecasting positive growth for many segments of the global IT security market over the next four years as several markets including BYOD security, …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Faulty TLS implementation opens VISA sites, users to attack A group of researchers …

A web-based SCADA system deployed mainly in the US energy sector sports vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to perform configuration changes and administrative operations …

A group of researchers has discovered 184 HTTPS servers that are wide open to attackers looking to inject seemingly valid content into encrypted sessions. Some of these …

The newly spotted ZCryptor ransomware has also the ability to spread like a worm, Microsoft warns. Once it infects a system, it also copies itself on removable drives, in the …

IT security tops the list of the skills that IT decision-makers say they want their team members to have, according to a new report by Global Knowledge, based on input from …

Twelve percent of banking CEOs say they do not have insight into whether their institution’s security has been compromised by a cyber attack in the past two years, …

Technology professionals see many steps that could be taken to improve their company’s security. Just over half of the 500 security professionals surveyed by CompTIA say …