Cyber Threats

According to a new report from Reuters, Facebook is planning to launch an election integrity initiative that will help protect Canada's next election from cyber threats. The decision was made due to pressure the social network is facing over its role in possible Russian meddling in the last U.S. presidential election. Canada's minister of democratic institutions...

China has reacted to reports about widespread Western cybersurveillance: it has dropped leading technology brands such as Cisco, Apple, Intel, McAfee, and Citrix Systems from its approved state purchase list, reports Reuters based on official data published in late 2014. At the same time, the state has approved thousands of locally made products, the newspaper...

According to the latest research from antivirus and internet security company Kaspersky Lab, the cyber threat to Mac OS X users is growing fast, with 1,499 new malicious programs detected in 2014. The Telegraph is reporting that every second user of Kaspersky Lab's products for Mac OS X was exposed to a malicious attack, with a total...