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Three Iranian hackers working for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the Trump campaign in an attempted hack-and-leak operation, according to the Department of Justice.

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This is the chipmaker’s second round of layoffs over the past year, while the company recorded billions in revenue.

Cisco’s executives made tens of millions in compensation, while cutting thousands of jobs in two separate rounds of layoffs.

This latest round of government sanctions lands months after Intellexa’s founder Tal Dilian was sanctioned for selling the Predator spyware.

The London transport authority removes a claim that said there was no evidence that customer data was compromised during a recent hack.

The car rental giant says personal information, credit card information, and driver’s license numbers were stolen in the August cyberattack.

Today’s scams can be as simple as picking up a phone call. To avoid the next fraud, there are good reasons to let your calls run to voicemail.

In a brief update ahead of the weekend, the London transport network said it has no evidence yet that customer data was compromised.

The oil and fracking giant says it is “working to identify effects” of the ongoing cyberattack on its oil and fracking operations.

Google said the findings were an example of how exploits developed by spyware makers can end up in the hands of “dangerous threat actors.”

Kissner previously served as Twitter’s chief information security officer, and held senior security and privacy positions at Apple, Google, and Lacework.

Tinder removed the U.S. military ads, saying the campaign violated the company’s policies.

A company spokesperson for the oil drilling and fracking giant declined to name the executive overseeing cybersecurity, if any.

The flight tracking company says the misconfiguration exposed customer names, addresses, and pilot’s data, as well as Social Security numbers.

A hack on UnitedHealth-owned tech giant Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the biggest data breaches of U.S. medical data in history.

A Texas company says it lost $60 million to a criminal fraud scheme, which the FBI says makes fraudsters billions of dollars every year.

The U.S. Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit said geofence search warrants are “categorically prohibited” under the Fourth Amendment.

The FBI’s takedown of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware and extortion gang is a rare win in the fight against ransomware.

Here is a look back at the top security research from the annual hacker conferences, Black Hat and Def Con 2024.

The data breach is the latest security issue to beset CSC ServiceWorks over the past year, after multiple researchers found security bugs.

This is the second cyberattack targeting the school device management service Mobile Guardian this year.

The vulnerabilities allowed one security researcher to peek inside the leak sites without having to log in.

The home security company says attackers accessed databases containing customer home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.

The ICO issued the provisional fine in “failing to implement appropriate security measures prior to the attack.”

Students that use school devices managed by Mobile Guardian have been unable to access their files for days following a cyberattack.