Security News > 2017 > June
Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results of a field experiment where we...
A group of researchers and security firms led by RSA delivered a significant blow to the infrastructure used by the notorious RIG exploit kit and the operation has allowed experts to learn more...
Every time a new topic trends on the Internet, scammers take advantage of it. You must have heard of Bitcoin and how in recent days it has made some early investors millionaire overnight. Yes, the...
A federal contractor has been charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday. read more
A discussion analyzing the difficulty of striking a balance between IT functionality and cybersecurity leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: Updates on sizing up...
Japanese authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy in Osaka, a prefecture and large port city, for allegedly creating and distributing a ransomware malware. This is the first such arrest in...
The FBI arrested a 25-year-old NSA contractor on Saturday (3rd June) for leaking classified information to an online news outlet which published its report yesterday (5th June) — meaning the...
A top secret National Security Agency document shows that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election, The...
Experts Sort Through New Task Force ReportA new Department of Health and Human Services report to Congress containing more than 100 recommendations for how healthcare can better address...