Security News > 2017 > June

A crowdfunding effort to buy a subscription to the ShadowBrokers' Monthly Dump Service of stolen exploits and data was shut down citing legal and ethical concerns.


A breach at OneLogin appears to have compromised customer data, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data.

The password-manager 1Password has just implemented a travel mode that tries to protect users while crossing borders. It doesn't make much sense. To enable it, you have to create a list of...

A data cache containing highly sensitive US military data has inadvertently been exposed online, UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery has discovered last week. After downloading and analyzing...

Researchers announced this week the launch of a crowdfunding initiative whose goal was to raise money to subscribe to the Shadow Brokers’ monthly exploit leaks. However, the funding campaign has...

Compromising legitimate websites and the web servers that store and deliver them is a time-honoured tactic of opportunistic hackers, and a failure to keep them out can result in the servers...

A new survey conducted by The Ponemon Institute uncovered a high rate of concern among organizations about the security of IoT, yet a gap in understanding of how to mitigate and communicate the...

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a number of programming errors in the WannaCry ransomware code that put file recovery within reach of sysadmins.

Spam campaigns distributing the Jaff ransomware have evolved and are using multiple decoy files hidden inside malicious PDF attachments, Trustwave security researchers say. read more