The Department of Justice has announced charges against nine Iranians, affiliated with the Mabna Institute, who are accused of stealing private data from U.S. universities, private companies, and U.S. government departments.

Mozilla is testing a method of securing DNS traffic via HTTPS, but is faced with some privacy resistance.

The senate on Thursday gave the thumbs up to a bill that is the subject of both support by tech companies and critique by privacy groups.

Threatpost talks to Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner who was instrumental in tracking the latest activities of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang.

The city of Atlanta is being extorted for $51,000 in a ransomware attack that occurred early Thursday that impacted several local government departments.

Drupal is giving developers ample time to prepare for an update that patches a “highly critical” flaw because exploits might be developed within hours or days of disclosure.

Apple has confirmed a privacy bug in it iPhone that allows the Siri voice assistant to read out messages from locked screens – even if the messages are hidden.

Netflix opens up bug bounty program to all white hat hackers and ups the ante for bugs to as much as $15,000.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has unfolded this past week, acknowledging that “we made mistakes” and vowing to step up to the plate when it comes to data security.

Politians are calling for legal ramifications for Facebook on the heels of the data privacy scandal that rocked the social media giant this week.