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Vulnerable server distributed election and voter files to counties throughout the state.

Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week's top security news.

Charter's product shutdown highlights lack of interoperability in alarm systems.

Site aggregated 12 billion usernames and passwords from over 10,000 breaches.

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A key to enterprise success with predictive analytics is to get the IT group involved, and do it early in the process.

Despite some imperfections, cloud adoption is the future. Of course, it's important to be mindful of the risks involved with the practice.

Attention users of InfiniteWP, WP Time Capsule, and WP Database Reset: It's time to patch.

A researcher demonstrated the attack less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever. 

Crypto library's certificate bug isn't the only reason to hustle with latest Windows patch.

A study from Unisys shows a significant segment of organizations have not seen substantial gains from cloud migration.

In 2016 the iPhone encryption debate ended in a draw. Don't count on 2020's scuffle over the Pensacola shooter's devices to play out the same way.

Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation.

Trump's Twitter tantrum doesn't change the laws of mathematics. Neither does Cellebrite.

Democrats and Republicans pitch $1.25 billion fund to boost non-Huawei 5G tech.

As the platform gains more mainstream popularity, illicit livestreams of soccer, boxing, and MMA matches have become trivial to find.

The ad company wants to protect its revenue model and user privacy at the same time.

IT hiring in December lost momentum, but it looks like it might just be a momentary blip. Here's why CompTIA remains confident about IT jobs.

As every company becomes a tech company, a major part of this shift means determining which tools will give an edge, and which ones will distract from broader goals.

California's new privacy law has spurred a torrent of online notices. But the law is also forcing changes offline, in traditional stores.

In an interview with WIRED editor in chief Nicholas Thompson, António Guterres says the world's next major conflict will start in cyberspace.

The internal configurations are the same, but the case design is very different.

With "OneSearch," Verizon promises no cookie tracking or personal profiling.

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In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack.

Apps employed a variety of tricks to avoid detection by Google and infected users.

Crypto library bug allows spoofing of certificates, but no attacks in wild—yet.

The Kremlin likely hacked the oil giant. Its next play: selectively release—and even forge—documents. Did the US learn enough from 2016 to ignore them?