Whole Foods says it has 'resolved' point-of-sale breach incident

Check Point Technologies sees a botnet coming that could cause more damage than Mirai.

Management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton is acquiring Morphick, a small, Cincinnati based cybersecurity company that developed a digital platform for threat detection, breach investigation and response.

A senior U.S. official pushed back against Sen. Claire McCaskill's criticism concerning the 90-day timeframe provided by the Department of Homeland Security for federal agencies to uninstall Kaspersky Lab products.

"It's a good paradigm" for cybersecurity, said Gus Hunt, "because, like the original moonshot, it's hard. Really hard."

"What we want to do is get to these kids in high school, get them into STEM programs and then we want to get them into colleges and universities that sponsor Scholarship for Service," a top bureau official said at CyberTalks.

The group has become virtually untraceable since September 2015.

Google has rolled out new security features for users of Gmail and Drive, as well as its Chrome web browser. For Gmail and Drive users, Google is offering an opt-in feature called the Advanced Protection Program, aimed at those who are more prone to online threats because of the nature of their work. The company announced the program in a blog post on Tuesday.

Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are banding together to design and build a series of computer environments where defenders can exercise, train and test tools to defend their real computer networks.

"It is highly likely that this tool will continue to be uncovered as part of targeted attacks for some time."

High end cybercrime group FIN7 stays one step ahead of defenders by changing their lures within a couple days of being identified.

The discovery by Kaspersky Lab marks at least the fifth zero-day exploit used by the so-called BlackOasis group and exposed by security researchers since June 2015.

"This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos, and so on."

CyberScoop has learned that Rob Joyce will take on a new position starting Monday as President Donald Trump's acting deputy homeland security adviser.

Popular anti-virus software companies are a prime target for intelligence agencies because most store large quantities of intuitive data on external servers and have direct, continuous access into their clients' networks, former U.S. intelligence officials and cybersecurity experts say.

Dynamic Data Exchange,like mac ros, can be abused by hackers to help them take over a targeted computer. But it's not a vulnerability and there's no fix, says Microsoft.

BSI said it doesn't warn against using Kaspersky products because it has no evidence of wrongdoing by the Russian company or weaknesses in its software.

“After 20 years in business, we’ve learned that executive departures are a routine part of operations," Kaspersky told CyberScoop.

The technical findings connect a known advanced persistent threat group, codenamed FIN7 by U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye, to a sophisticated intrusion technique that was detected in a recent wave of spoofed emails that mimicked the SEC's domain.

“Deception puts attackers on the defensive making them work harder and increasing their costs."

A number of voting machines used in U.S. elections are easily hackable, a report from DEF CON, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions, found.