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Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, obtained early by FedScoop, identified nine overall threat patterns by collating 10 years of data, and Verizon researchers have now mapped those specific threat patterns to specific industries.

U.S. securities regulators unveiled a road map for ensuring that Wall Street firms are prepared to detect and prevent cyber security attacks.

 Dakota State University in Madison, SD will offer a new doctoral degree in cyber security this fall.

A number of U.S. states are jointly investigating a data breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed the social security numbers of 200 million people.

Yahoo has added more layers of security in its effort to shield people's online lives from government spying and other snooping.

The mobile malware “zoo” totaled 3.73 million samples at the end of the year. According to McAfee Labs Threats Report, Fourth Quarter 2013, malware can arrive on a mobile device through just about every attack vector, such as downloaded apps, malicious website, spam, malicious SMS messages, and malware-bearing advertisements.

A recent study shows that 95 percent of American bank ATMs still run on Windows XP, but Windows is discontinuing support (including security updates) of the XP operating system as of April 8, 2014.