Security News > 2017 > July

Defensive AI system implements strategies from the best analysts (Help Net Security)
2017-07-27 13:00

Champion Technology Company, developer of DarkLight, an AI expert system for active cyber defense and trusted information sharing, today released their latest technology update with DarkLight 3.0....

FireEye Releases Free Malware Analysis Toolbox (Security Week)
2017-07-27 12:13

FireEye has released a piece of software that creates a fully customizable virtual machine (VM) containing all the tools and tweaks needed for malware analysis and other cybersercurity-related...

Sweden Data Scandal Costs Two Ministers Their Jobs (Security Week)
2017-07-27 11:37

Two Swedish ministers lost their jobs on Thursday over a huge leak of sensitive data that has rocked the fragile centre-left government.  read more

Firing a Locked Smart Gun (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-27 11:14

The Armatix IP1 "smart gun" can only be fired by someone who is wearing a special watch. Unfortunately, this security measure is easily hackable....

3 New CIA-developed Hacking Tools For MacOS & Linux Exposed (The Hackers News)
2017-07-27 09:19

WikiLeaks has just published a new set of classified documents linked to another CIA project, dubbed 'Imperial,' which reveals details of at least three CIA-developed hacking tools and implants...

Unpatched Cisco Autonomic Networking Flaws Disclosed at Black Hat (Security Week)
2017-07-27 09:11

Cisco published advisories on Wednesday to inform users of several unpatched vulnerabilities affecting the Autonomic Networking feature of it IOS and IOS XE software. The flaws, some of which...

Bitcoin Exchange Operator Arrested For $4 Billion Money Laundering Scheme (The Hackers News)
2017-07-27 08:13

Greece police have arrested a Russian man who is believed to have been the operator of the popular BTC-e Bitcoin exchange on charges of laundering more than $4 billion in bitcoin for culprits...

Microsoft Launches Windows Bug Bounty Program (Security Week)
2017-07-27 06:38

Microsoft announced on Wednesday the launch of a Windows bug bounty program with payouts ranging between $500 and $250,000. read more