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Poor endpoint security practices are propelling the great ransomware epidemic of 2016 — and if allowed to fester, the threat will spread to new endpoints including IoT devices, cars and ICS and SCADA systems, a new report said.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced a bug bounty program last week that it termed "experimental."

The two men responsible for the SpyEye banking trojan, used to steal user information from financial institutions, were sentenced to a combined 24-1/2 years in prison.

A teenager turned himself in to police in Staffordshire, U.K., where he was arrested on charges stemming from a breach of internet services provider TalkTalk.

Researchers have discovered a new trick for concealing the installation of RATs, after identifying malware samples that never touch the hard drive throughout execution, remaining in memory until the malware is fully enabled.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was indeed a target of a cyberattack last year.

In a declassified ruling, a federal judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ruled that the FBI's search of Americans' emails without a warrant during criminal investigations is not contradictory to the Constitution or the FISA Amendments Act.