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Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it’s “primarily synthetic (fake)

comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in

Four new samples of Android spyware linked to the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that collects WhatsApp data, records audio and video, and

UPDATED US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue. At the time of writing, the airline’s website includes a

US carrier Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet due to an unspecified IT issue. At the time of writing, the airline’s website includes a banner

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The UK government is warning that Russia’s APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard) has been deploying previously unknown malware to harvest Microsoft

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Analysis WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had

Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them

Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector

The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016. “If large-scale quantum computers

Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019. The software behemoth announced the