Security News > 2017 > July

Win a security gap assessment from NTT Security at Black Hat (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 20:53

This year at Black Hat 2017, NTT Security is focusing on incident response readiness: one lucky show participant will win a thorough security gap assessment from the NTT Security Incident Response...

Microsoft expands bug bounty program to cover any Windows flaw (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-26 20:28

Now every part of Windows is covered by a bug bounty scheme.

Second Fraudster Pleads Guilty in UPMC Breach Case (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-26 20:03

Hacked Employee Data Used in Fake Tax FilingsA federal court has ordered the deportation of a Venezuelan citizen who is the second person to plead guilty for their role in a conspiracy to commit...

UniCredit breach: Data of 400,000 customers exposed (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 19:06

Italian global banking and financial services company UniCredit has revealed that it has suffered two security breaches in less than a year. “A first breach seems to have occurred in September and...

Facebook Security Boss: Empathy, Inclusion Must Come to Security (Threatpost)
2017-07-26 18:33

At Black Hat, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos' keynote message was one of bringing empathy and inclusion to security, and that it's time to stop being insular.

Malware creators increasingly run their business like legitimate software companies (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 18:11

The continuing increase in ransomware attacks is, partly, due to how easy the malware can be built and used by attackers that have limited technical skills. Take for example the Philadelphia...

Google Takes Second Swing at OAuth Worm (Security Week)
2017-07-26 17:56

Mitigations put in place by Google in May 2017 to help block phishing attacks such as the recent OAuth worm weren’t enough to completely mitigate the issue, as Google's platform still allowed...

Orchestrating security across multiple environments (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 16:18

In an effort to help organizations centralize their intelligence and security process management, ThreatConnect has expanded its security platform’s capabilities to allow Playbooks to run across...

Only 2% of “GDPR-ready” organizations are actually compliant (Help Net Security)
2017-07-26 15:19

Only nine percent of UK organizations that believe they are prepared for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) actually are, new research from Veritas has found. In fact, organizations...

NoMoreRansom Says 28,000 Victim Devices Decrypted (Security Week)
2017-07-26 15:18

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of the NoMoreRansom project. The project comprises an alliance of law enforcement agencies and private industry, currently totaling 109...