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Researchers demonstrated vulnerabilities in German banks and POS systems that could compromise payment cards data.

The BBC websites and associated content were hit by what is believed to have been a massive cyber attack.

IBM said a permissions error in its SPSS Statistics scripts could allow local users to gain elevated privileges, the company reported.

Cloud hosting company Linode reported that a set of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have caused service interruptions at DNS infrastructure and data center locations in the U.S. and the U.K.

Steam confirmed that a midday denial-of-service attack on Christmas likely exposed the personal information of 34,000 users via store page requests.

After Adobe issues patch for Flash, Microsoft issued its own patch to address Flash vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

The third-oldest school in the U.K. is working to improve cyber hygiene after an employee lost a memory stick that belonged to the school while on public transport.

Hillsides child-services and welfare agency in Pasadena, Calif. reported a data breach on December 30 that could impact about 1,000 clients and staff members.