Security News > 2017 > April

US lawmakers propose bill to stop warrantless phone searches at US border (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 18:55

Four US Congressmen have introduced on Tuesday a new law aimed at protecting Americans from warrantless searches of their digital devices when they cross the US border. The Protecting Data at the...

Tax season security tips: Protect yourself from cybercrime (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 18:34

Between December 2016 and February 2017, IBM X-Force researchers saw a 6,000 percent increase in tax-related spam emails. The researchers see this increase and other factors as evidence that...

Malware Scanning Services Containers for Sensitive Business Information (Threatpost)
2017-04-05 17:01

At the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, one researcher shared how he was able to find corporate emails, confidential business plans and classified FBI flash alerts.

WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee opposes encryption backdoors (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 15:53

As the de-facto inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s opinions on things like online privacy and encryption backdoors should carry a lot more weight than those of most people. Why...

APT10 and Cloud Hopper (Schneier on Security)
2017-04-05 15:42

There's a new report of a nation-state attack, presumed to be from China, on a series of managed ISPs. From the executive summary: Since late 2016, PwC UK and BAE Systems have been assisting...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day Two Recap (Threatpost)
2017-04-05 15:16

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the second day of Kaspersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit, including how a Brazilian bank was compromised, and more.

Highest paying certifications, skills in demand revealed (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 13:35

Global Knowledge surveyed 14,000 IT and business professionals worldwide, and confirmed that individuals and organizations benefit from IT certification. Participants identified increased...

15 new ransomware decryption tools added to No More Ransom (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 13:00

Nine months after the launch of the No More Ransom (NMR) project, an ever-growing number of law enforcement and private partners have joined the initiative, allowing more victims of ransomware to...

45% of large British businesses sustained a successful ransomware attack (Help Net Security)
2017-04-05 12:30

Over a third of British businesses (36 percent) are not very confident that efforts to completely eradicate a recent ransomware attack from work systems have been successful. The research, carried...