Researcher finds Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday release included a fix for the Intel Meltdown bug, however the update opened up a new vulnerability.

The suspected leader behind the cyber crime group that targeted banks to rack up more than one billion Euros in damage over the past few years has been apprehended, according to the Spanish National Police.

Facebook announced that in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program as the company cracks down on data misuse by app developers.

Researchers identify a new malware family called GoScanSSH that avoids servers linked to government and military IP addresses. 

Attackers, purportedly hailing from Korea, are stepping up their malware campaign with three new techniques ranging from abusing UAC and targeting Windows 10.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it is launching an investigation into Facebook’s data privacy practices

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.