Security News > 2017 > July

French Regulator Accepts Microsoft's Data Protection Improvements to Windows 10 (Security Week)
2017-07-03 12:09

CNIL Accepts Microsoft's Data Protection Improvements to Windows 10 read more

HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-03 12:00

Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can't get here fast enough.

New German Law Risks Chilling Effect on Free Speech in Social Media (Security Week)
2017-07-03 11:52

Germany passed a new law on Friday that imposes fines of up to €50 million on social media services with more than 2 million German users if they fail to remove hate speech or other illegal...

UK Audit Office Says More Effort Needed to Combat Online Fraud (Security Week)
2017-07-03 11:37

UK's National Audit Office Says Online Fraud Needs to be Treated More Seriously by Government read more

UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service (The Hackers News)
2017-07-03 11:37

A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world's leading...

A Man-in-the-Middle Attack against a Password Reset System (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-03 11:01

This is nice work: "The Password Reset MitM Attack," by Nethanel Gelerntor, Senia Kalma, Bar Magnezi, and Hen Porcilan: Abstract: We present the password reset MitM (PRMitM) attack and show how it...

Linux Systemd Gives Root Privileges to Invalid Usernames (Security Week)
2017-07-03 10:21

A bug in Linux’s systemd init system causes root permissions to be given to services associated with invalid usernames, and while this could pose a security risk, exploitation is not an easy task....

Would Cheaper Windows Upgrades Solve Ransomware Woes? (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-03 10:18

Discounts Are a Good Start, But Won't Magically Fix Deeper ProblemsBy lowering the price of Windows, could Microsoft help stop the spread of mass ransomware worms? India seems to think so. But...

Google Employees Hit by Sabre Breach (Security Week)
2017-07-03 08:19

Google has notified some employees that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of the data breach suffered by travel technology firm Sabre. read more

Week in review: NotPetya, Facebook to inspect private messages, new issue of (IN)SECURE (Help Net Security)
2017-07-03 01:55

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: With ransomware, pay up if you want to keep paying So there you are, staring at a locked computer screen demanding a...