Security News > 2016 > November

Current application test data management practices are not adequate to meet the compliance requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to CA Technologies. In fact,...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Bug in Chrome for mobile exploited for drive-by Android malware downloads Users of the mobile version of Google Chrome...

Pretty neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Interesting research: "Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets," by Renato Rocha Souza, Flavio Codeco Coelho, Rohan Shah, and Matthew Connelly. Abstract: Whether officials can be...

A data leak has exposed sensitive information about millions of job seekers that used global recruitment firm Michael Page. The leak has once again been revealed to the leaking company through...

Researchers say BlackNurse attacks are low bandwidth (18Mbps) and can still knock offline many of today’s firewalls.

When the FBI announced the arrest of a Russian hacker in October, it was notable – but maybe not for the reason you’d expect. Yevgeniy N., who was picked up in Prague, is implicated in the 2012...

This is some interesting research. You can fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses printed with elements of other peoples' faces. Mahmood Sharif, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and...

Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been given a $275,000...

SMBs risk data security if they use free cloud storage, but nearly 25% still do, despite warnings from industry experts. In addition, new findings reveal that 11% of SMBs are storing banking...