Security News > 2017 > June

Google Offers $200,000 for TrustZone, Verified Boot Exploits (Security Week)
2017-06-02 14:03

Google this week announced increased rewards for security researchers reporting TrustZone or Verified Boot exploit chains. The company is now willing to pay up to $200,000 for such compromises,...

New Gmail anti-phishing features rely on machine learning (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 14:00

Google has announced several new security features and improvement of existing ones in order to protect Gmail users against phishing emails. New features The new features are intended for users of...

Stanford University Site Hosted Phishing Pages for Months (Security Week)
2017-06-02 13:47

Hackers compromised the website of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University to deploy phishing sites, hacking tools, and defacement pages since January, Netcraft...

New infosec products of the week​: June 2, 2017 (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 13:30

EclecticIQ Platform broadens scope of available cyber threat intelligence The latest version of EclecticIQ Platform, the analyst-centric threat intelligence platform, now covers all relevant...

WikiLeaks Dumps CIA Patient Zero Windows Implant (Threatpost)
2017-06-02 13:00

Pandemic is a Windows implant built by the CIA that turns file servers into Patient Zero on a local network, infecting machines requesting files with Trojanized replacements.

FTSE companies lack secure data collection methods (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 13:00

With less than a year remaining until the commencement of the GDPR, new research reveals that more than one-third of all public web pages of FTSE 30 companies capturing personally identifiable...

Weak DevOps cryptographic policies increase financial services cyber risk (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 12:30

Cryptographic security risks are amplified in DevOps settings, where compromises in development or test environments can spread to production systems and applications. This is a particular issue...

OneLogin Shares More Details on Breach, Customer Impact (Security Week)
2017-06-02 12:25

Identity and access management firm OneLogin has shared more details on the data breach that hit its U.S. data center this week, including information on the method of attack and impact on...

Fireball Malware Infects 250 Million Computers Worldwide (Threatpost)
2017-06-02 12:00

A massive malware campaign has already infected 250 million Windows and Mac OS computers worldwide.

WannaCry and Vulnerabilities (Schneier on Security)
2017-06-02 11:06

There is plenty of blame to go around for the WannaCry ransomware that spread throughout the Internet earlier this month, disrupting work at hospitals, factories, businesses, and universities....