November

OAuth 2.0 Hack Exposes 1 Billion Mobile Apps to Account Hijacking (Threatpost)

2016-11-10 14:41

Mobile app developers need to be aware of improper OAuth 2.0 implementations that have put one billion mobile apps at risk to takeover.

#hack #hijacking #mobile #oauth #threatpost

Will security concerns negatively impact the online holiday shopping season? (Help Net Security)

2016-11-10 13:15

In a survey of over 1,900 consumers crossing the US and UK, Computop found 76 percent planned to shop online this holiday season. However, 62 percent of those respondents overall don’t plan to...

#online #security

GDPR privacy, preparations and understanding (Help Net Security)

2016-11-10 13:00

A new GDPR privacy benchmarking study by IAPP and TRUSTe provides insight into how companies are preparing for the sweeping changes to privacy laws under the EU General Data Protection Regulation...

#gdpr #privacy #security

Tesco Bank hack shows that attackers continue to follow easy money (Help Net Security)

2016-11-10 12:45

What happens when nearly 9,000 accounts at a financial institution experience fraudulent activity and clients have nearly £2.5 million stolen? People notice. The bank notices and shuts down...

#bank #hack #security #tesco

Number of vulnerable enterprises at five year record high (Help Net Security)

2016-11-10 12:30

Enterprises across the globe are refreshing their network equipment earlier in its lifecycle in a move to embrace workplace mobility, Internet of Things, and software-defined networking...

#security

Regulation of the Internet of Things (Schneier on Security)

2016-11-10 12:06

Late last month, popular websites like Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit and PayPal went down for most of a day. The distributed denial-of-service attack that caused the outages, and the vulnerabilities...

#internet #internetofthings #regulation #security