Google on Friday announced the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (APVI), an effort aimed at improving patching of security issues specific to Android OEMs.

A North American merchant’s point-of-sale (POS) terminals were infected with a mix of POS malware earlier this year, Visa reports.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published a malware analysis report for what they described as a new malware variant named SLOTHFULMEDIA.

Industrial automation giant Rockwell Automation on Friday announced the acquisition of Oylo, a cybersecurity company based in Spain. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

As yet unidentifed hackers have managed to steal employee salary payments at several Swiss universities, officials said Sunday.

"According to our information, several top schools in Switzerland have been affected," Martina Weiss, director general of the rectors group of Switzerland's public universities, told AFP.

The Fitbits on our wrists collect our health and fitness data; Apple promises privacy but lots of iPhone apps can still share our personal information; and who really knows what they’re agreeing to when a website asks, “Do You Accept All Cookies?” Most people just click “OK” and hope for the best, says former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.