A new report points out the dangers to customer data of website reliance on multiple third parties.

Simply implementing best practices is not enough to address the risk coming from your own employees.

Microsoft today issued security updates to plug some 80 security holes in various flavors of its Windows operating systems and related software. The software giant assigned a "critical" rating to almost a quarter of those vulnerabilities, meaning they could be used by malware or miscreants to hijack vulnerable systems with little or no interaction on the part of the user.

September Patch Tuesday leads off with two elevation-of-privilege bugs that have been exploited in the wild.

Cybercrooks are using bots to create synthetic digital identities, to carry out various types of fraud.

Overall Adobe's September security update addressed vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Application Manager.

Data breaches fuel a complex cybercriminal ecosystem, similar to copper thefts after the financial crisis.

A firewall vulnerability enabled attackers to repeatedly reboot the victim entity's firewalls, causing unexpected outages.

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Avast set out to study a variety of GPS tools found on the internet and how secure they are which can be found on Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay among others.

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DoS security flaws can be exploited via crafted SOAP and HTTP requests