Security News > 2016 > December

Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack (Threatpost)
2016-12-13 18:00

As part of Patch Tuesday Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows.

KFC Warns 1.2 Million UK Customers of Colonel’s Club Breach (Threatpost)
2016-12-13 17:08

KFC Corporation warned 1.2 million of its UK-based Colonel’s Club members to reset their passwords after 30 members were targeted in an attack.

Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool (Threatpost)
2016-12-13 14:00

Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS certificates issued for a domain. Users can monitor and audit this information for malicious or mistakenly issued certs.

The new CISO imperative: Solving the information management paradox (Help Net Security)
2016-12-13 13:35

According to Cybersecurity Ventures’ Cybersecurity Market Report, worldwide spending on cybersecurity is predicted to top $1 trillion for the five-year period from 2017 to 2021. However, in the...

93% of SOC managers unable to triage all potential threats (Help Net Security)
2016-12-13 13:24

In mid-2016, Intel Security commissioned a primary research study to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which enterprises use SOCs, how they have changed over time, and what they will look...

Zcash mining software covertly installed on victims’ machines (Help Net Security)
2016-12-13 12:45

Software “mining” the recently established Zcash (ZEC) cryptocurrency is being foisted upon unsuspecting users, Kaspersky Lab warns. The actual software is not illegal, and not technically malware...

DevSecOps to drive the digital imperative (Help Net Security)
2016-12-13 12:30

Dan Hushon, CSC’s CTO, has identified six trends around the philosophy of DevSecOps that company leaders need to be thinking about to drive digital transformation. Hushon’s predictions lay out the...

Hiding Information in Silver and Carbon Ink (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-13 12:21

Interesting: "We used silver and carbon ink to print an image consisting of small rods that are about a millimeter long and a couple of hundred microns wide," said Ajay Nahata from the University...

Apple Fixes 12 Vulnerabilities in iOS 10.2 (Threatpost)
2016-12-12 21:22

Apple released iOS 10.2 on Monday, addressing a handful of security vulnerabilities, including two issues that could have led to arbitrary code execution.

New AirDroid releases fix major security issues (Help Net Security)
2016-12-12 20:44

Popular AirDroid remote management tool for Android can now be used without worrying about malicious updates and data theft, its developers claim. What was the problem? Mobile security firm...