Security News > 2017 > June

Government Contractors Required to Provide Insider Threat Awareness Training (Security Week)
2017-06-05 13:48

Change Two to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM 2) came into force at the end of May 2017. One of the biggest changes involves a new requirement for contractors to...

It’s time for a common sense security framework (Help Net Security)
2017-06-05 13:30

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse maintains a database of every data breach made public since 2005, and as the total number of records rapidly approaches one billion, board members, infosec leaders,...

The cost of IoT hacks: Up to 13% of revenue for smaller firms (Help Net Security)
2017-06-05 13:00

Nearly half of U.S. firms using an Internet of Things (IoT) network have been hit by a recent security breach, which can cost up to 13% of smaller companies’ annual revenue, according to a new...

Police dismantle organised crime network suspected of online payment scams (Help Net Security)
2017-06-05 12:30

The Polish National Police, working in close cooperation with its law enforcement counterparts in Croatia, Germany, Romania and Sweden, alongside Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), have...

CIA's Pandemic Toolkit (Schneier on Security)
2017-06-05 11:16

WikiLeaks is still dumping CIA cyberweapons on the Internet. Its latest dump is something called "Pandemic": The Pandemic leak does not explain what the CIA's initial infection vector is, but does...

Google Announces CTF Competition (Security Week)
2017-06-05 10:46

Google announced on Friday the dates and prizes for the company’s second annual capture the flag (CTF) competition. The qualifying round, for which nearly 200 teams have already signed up, will...

Exclusive: Vulnerabilities Could Unlock Brand-New Subarus (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-05 10:33

Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity: Challenges Continue, as Now-Patched Flaws ShowFlaws in Subaru's telematics software, discovered by a security researcher, could have been exploited to unlock the...

New Method Used to Deliver Malware via PowerPoint Files (Security Week)
2017-06-05 09:40

Cybercriminals have been leveraging a new technique, which involves PowerPoint files and mouseover events, to get users to execute arbitrary code on their systems and download malware. read more

Over 8,600 Vulnerabilities Found in Pacemakers (The Hackers News)
2017-06-05 04:34

"If you want to keep living, Pay a ransom, or die." This could happen, as researchers have found thousands of vulnerabilities in Pacemakers that hackers could exploit. Millions of people that rely...