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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In its seventh annual Mandiant M-Trends report, FireEye-owned Mandiant said that organizations are improving on the time it takes to detect a security breach.
While the positive news on improved breach detection is exciting in the current days of cyber doom and gloom, Mandiant also found an increase in the number of destructive attacks hitting organizations.
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.
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.
FBI Director James Comey on Thursday defended his agency's efforts to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, as he warned of risks of unbreakable encryption.
"The San Bernardino litigation is not about us trying to send a message or establish some kind of precedent," Comey told lawmakers at the House Intelligence Committee.