Security News > 2017 > June

Russian Hackers Target Montenegro as Country Joins NATO (Security Week)
2017-06-07 08:58

Hackers linked to Russia launched cyberattacks on the Montenegro government just months before the country joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and experts believe these attacks...

Beware! This Microsoft PowerPoint Hack Installs Malware Without Requiring Macros (The Hackers News)
2017-06-07 05:29

"Disable macros and always be extra careful when you manually enable it while opening Microsoft Office Word documents." You might have heard of above-mentioned security warning multiple times on...

Kaspersky Accuses Microsoft of Unfairly Disabling its Antivirus in Windows 10 (The Hackers News)
2017-06-07 00:54

Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab is so upset with US software giant Microsoft that the security firm has filed more antitrust complaints against the company. The antivirus firm initially...

You’ll never guess where Russian spies are hiding their control servers (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-06 22:40

Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks.

Whitepaper: Confronting advanced threats as an organization (Help Net Security)
2017-06-06 22:00

Global cybersecurity issues have gone mainstream, but email security has curiously slipped by the wayside despite the fact that 91% of today’s targeted attacks start with email. What’s more, while...

Leaked Documents Show US Vote Hacking Risks (Security Week)
2017-06-06 20:01

Security experts have warned for years that hackers could penetrate electronic voting systems, and now, leaked national security documents suggest a concerted effort to do just that in the 2016 US...

Privacy Case Against Telehealth App Vendor Dismissed (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-06 19:33

Lawsuit Alleged MDLive Unlawfully Shared Data with Another VendorA class action lawsuit alleging that telehealth app vendor MDLive violated consumers' privacy by sharing data with another vendor...

Curiosity Kills Security When it Comes to Phishing (Threatpost)
2017-06-06 19:20

The results of an academic experiment reveal that recipients of Facebook messages are much more likely to click on suspicious links.

IBM Backup Bug Gets Workaround Fix After Nine Months of Exposure (Threatpost)
2017-06-06 19:16

IBM quietly released a workaround fix for a vulnerability in its Spectrum Protect enterprise backup software it has known about since September 2016.

Organizations Failing to Upgrade Systems, Enforce Patches (Security Week)
2017-06-06 18:18

Organizations Are Still Failing to Upgrade Systems and Enforce Patches, Study Finds read more