This week's TechRepublic and ZDNet news stories include a Verizon error leads to massive outages, Apple's plan to hire 2,000 employees, and five ways robots impact our lives.

A bug in EA Games’ single sign-on mechanism could have allowed hackers to access game accounts.

An analysis of the 1,000 most popular Docker containers uncovered a variety of security vulnerabilities, some of which are critical.

This week's TechRepublic and ZDNet news stories include a Verizon error leads to massive outages, Apple's plan to hire 2,000 employees, and five ways robots impact our lives.

A two-step strategy for creating an attack environment that is more complex, less profitable, and more likely to expose the attacker.

Recent changes to data privacy legislation in the Lone Star State will likely affect the incident response plan of any company that does business in the state.

This comprehensive guide covers different types of denial of service attacks, DDoS protection strategies, as well as why it matters for business.

After a March report exposed Iran-linked APT33's infrastructure and operations, the cyberespionage group has adopted new tactics and techniques.

Cisco has patched two critical vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager software, which could allow a remote attacker to take over affected devices.

Lawsuit alleges sales representatives stole trade secrets from McAfee before joining Tanium.

The challenges and benefits to getting two traditionally adversarial groups on the same page.

A two-step strategy for creating an attack environment that is more complex, less profitable, and more likely to expose the attacker.

Silex has 'bricked' more than 2,000 Linux-based IoT devices so far.

Google finalizes its DNS-over-HTTPS service.

While the password-cracking Mimikatz took top honors, Mac-targeted malware accounted for two of the 10 most detected malware samples, according to WatchGuard.

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Many enterprises are too dependent on cloud vendors to secure their critical online data rather than adopting security as a shared responsibility, according to a survey from CyberArk.

Attend Black Hat USA this summer and see how researchers are subverting the GDPR's privacy rules and detecting deep fakes with machine learning.

After fingers, the iris of the eye, ears and even lips, it was probably inevitable that someone would propose the human heart might be the next big thing in biometric security.

It’s a drop in the “4.7 billion robocalls placed per month” bucket, but hey, it’s better than nothing!

Sen. Markey and 2 consumer groups said the Google-owned service must comply with COPPA and should be held accountable for not doing so.