Security News > 2016 > June

New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms (Help Net Security)
2016-06-29 21:28

An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass the upper house...

FTC Closes 70 Percent of Data Breach Investigations, Weighing PCI-DSS Standard (Threatpost)
2016-06-29 21:03

The FTC closes roughly 70 percent of the investigations it opens and is weighing how to better handle PCI-DSS and other standards, an agency official said this week.

World-Check crime and terror database exposed online (Help Net Security)
2016-06-29 19:54

Security researcher Chris Vickery, who has become well-known for unearthing databases that should not be accessible via the Internet but are, has found another one that contains old data from...

Hard Rock Las Vegas, Noodle and Co. Confirm Hacks (Threatpost)
2016-06-29 17:54

In two unrelated breaches, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas and Noodle and Company confirm hacks.