This month's Patch Tuesday includes 49 patches, two of which are ranked Critical, and two security advisories.

New Intel Coffee Lake CPUs offer hardware-based protections against some -but not all- Spectre and Meltdown variants.

This year's Virus Bulletin conference featured top-tier research from some of the world's best threat intelligence experts.

By ensuring that each layer of protection scours an application for unintended uses, you can find the flaws before the bad guys do.

GAO report outlines challenges for the US Department of Defense to handle security flaws in weapon systems.

By Waqas

Tenable Research’s cybersecurity researcher has released “By The way,” which is a new PoC (proof-of-concept) RCE attack after identifying a new attack method to exploit an already discovered vulnerability in MikroTik routers. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-14847, is an old directory traversal flaw, which was patched the same day it was detected in April, 2018. […]

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Cloud computing is creating new challenges among security professionals as attackers embrace the "as-a-service model", giving unsophisticated cybercriminals a leg up in carrying out attacks.

Google was caught not disclosing a potential data breach -- leaving questions as to whether a lack of transparency is the new normal.

Most of the attacks originated in China.

Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond calls for an end to intra-agency “turf wars” over cybersecurity responsibility.