Security News > 2016 > November

Tesco Bank Stops Online Transactions After Money Missing from 20K Accounts (Threatpost)
2016-11-07 19:49

Tesco Bank, a U.K. retail bank, today put a halt to online transactions from current accounts after some customers reported over the weekend money missing from their accounts.

20,000 affected by Tesco Bank security breach (Help Net Security)
2016-11-07 19:35

It’s been a rough weekend for 20,000 customers of British retail Tesco Bank: they’ve witnessed their bank accounts being plundered and have been phoning the bank to report the theft, but most of...

Firefox Removing Battery Status API (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-07 18:59

Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here's the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status...

Microsoft Tears off the Band-Aid with EMET (Threatpost)
2016-11-07 18:50

Microsoft extended the end of life deadline on EMET to July 2018, but experts say its usefulness as a mitigation toolkit has been limited for some time.