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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Hacker had access to sensitive info about Firefox bugs for over a yearMozilla has …

“A new type of malware that can be used to compromise ATMs independently of who their manufacturer is, and can make the machine steal card data but also the cards …

Making things easier for users is generally a good idea, but sometimes complicating a process could lead to increased security, and should be the preferred option.A blog post …

Felix Wilhelm, a researcher with German security firm ERNW, was scheduled to give a talk at 44CON on Thursday about the critical vulnerabilities he and his colleagues found in …

91 percent of business respondents reported that their productivity is negatively impacted by security measures their employer has put in place, according to Dell. However, if …

Vormetric did a survey on how Americans view “backdoor” access by government entities to the encrypted data of private businesses. Ninety-one percent recognized …

Vulnerability management (VM) solution providers have always held their own in the global network security domain. VM technologies scan network endpoints such as desktops and …

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has had its computer systems successfully breached by cyber attackers 159 times in four years, USA Today reports.The US DOE is responsible, …

After having graciously waited for quite a while to publish the exploit for the Android Stagefright vulnerability (CVE-2015-1538) so that Google, mobile carriers and device …

Akamai shared details of an increase in DDoS attacks from the Bitcoin extortionist group DD4BC, based on observation of attack traffic targeted at customers from September …

Cyber risk is a major and fast-increasing threat to businesses with cyber-crime alone costing the global economy approximately $445 billion a year, with the world’s largest 10 …

“A sophisticated new piece of ransomware targeting Android users and locking them out of their devices by changing the PIN has been discovered by ESET researchers. …