Security News > 2017 > January

Most organizations are unaware of daily malicious activity (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 13:30

A new DomainTools survey of more than 550 security analysts, IT managers, and executives revealed that the majority of organizations are struggling to monitor and prevent cyberattacks on their...

Jupyter Notebook unwittingly opens huge server security hole (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 13:15

Jupyter Notebook has become a reliable tool for individuals to learn new programming languages, build proof-of-concept tools and analyze data. However, there are severe consequences when security...

Security Risks of the President's Android Phone (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-26 13:06

Reports are that President Trump is still using his old Android phone. There are security risks here, but they are not the obvious ones. I'm not concerned about the data. Anything he reads on that...

Powerful Android RAT impersonates Netflix app (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 13:00

Mobile malware peddlers often make their malicious wares look like popular Android apps and push them to users through third-party app stores. The latest example of this is the fake Netflix app...

Top 10 most malware-infected US cities (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 12:45

Webroot revealed the top 10 most malware-infected US cities. According to Webroot’s data, Houston is the most infected US city with 60,801 infected devices. The research reflects the number of...

Security budgets shifting from prevention to detection (Help Net Security)
2017-01-26 12:30

According to industry estimates, enterprises have historically spent more than 75% of their infosec technology budgets on preventative technologies. According to a new survey conducted by Anderson...

Half of Ransomware Victims Pay Criminals’ Demands to Recover Data (Threatpost)
2017-01-26 12:00

A Ponemon Institute report on ransomware revealed 48 percent of businesses surveyed paid a ransom in exchange for getting their data back.

Default Credentials Found in Schneider Electric Wonderware Historian (Threatpost)
2017-01-25 20:11

ICS-CERT warns of default credentials in Schneider Electric Wonderware Historian that can be abused to compromise Historian databases.

Firefox 51 starts flagging HTTP login pages as insecure (Help Net Security)
2017-01-25 19:45

Mozilla has released Firefox 51 on Tuesday, and this latest stable version of the popular browser comes with many security fixes and improvements. The list of security vulnerabilities fixed is...

Firefox 51 Begins Warning Users of Insecure HTTP Connections (Threatpost)
2017-01-25 19:30

Firefox 51 includes warnings to users landing on HTTP websites, and patches for nearly a half-dozen critical security vulnerabilities.