Security News > 2017 > July

Microsoft Is Paying Up To $250,000 With Its New Bug Bounty Program (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 11:52

Microsoft has finally launched a new dedicated bug bounty program to encourage security researchers and bug hunters for finding and responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in its latest Windows...

What Are Security Buyers Looking For? (Security Week)
2017-07-26 11:14

The information security market has been a topic of acute interest for quite some time now.  Estimates around the current size of the market range between $75 and $150 Billion. That is far larger...

Roombas will Spy on You (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-26 11:06

The company that sells the Roomba autonomous vacuum wants to sell the data about your home that it collects....

North Korea's Elite More Connected Than Previously Thought (Security Week)
2017-07-26 10:50

Telecommunications capability in North Korea is three-tiered. The vast majority of people have neither internet nor North Korean intranet connectivity -- they simply have mobile telephony voice,...

Tech Giants Announce Plans for Removal of Flash (Security Week)
2017-07-26 09:53

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have outlined their plans for moving away from Flash Player now that Adobe officially announced an end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-support date for the...

Smart Vacuum Cleaners Making Map Of Your Home — And Wants to Sell It (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 08:26

What if I say that your cute, smart robotic vacuum cleaner is collecting data than just dirt? During an interview with Reuters, the CEO of iRobot, the company which manufactured Roomba device, has...

New Windows Backdoor Linked to SambaCry Linux Malware (Security Week)
2017-07-26 08:00

The cybercriminals who had recently delivered a cryptocurrency miner to Linux servers by exploiting the Samba vulnerability known as EternalRed and SambaCry are believed to have developed a...

Hacker Steals $8.4 Million in Ethereum from Veritaseum (Security Week)
2017-07-26 05:53

An unknown hacker stole around 37,000 VERI tokens from Veritaseum peer-to-peer platform and sold them for around $8.4 million in Ethereum during the company’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering). read more

Russia Bans Proxy Services And VPNs To Purge Extremist Content (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 05:03

Earlier this year, China announced a crackdown on VPNs and proxy services in the country and made it mandatory for all VPN providers and leased cable lines operators to have a license from the...

Gang Behind Fireball Malware that Infected 250 Million PCs Busted by Police (The Hackers News)
2017-07-26 02:08

Chinese authorities have recently initiated a crackdown on the operators of a massive adware campaign that infected around 250 Million computers, including Windows and Mac OS, across the world...