Security News > 2017 > August
Organizations are being reminded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will soon change the root zone key signing key for the Domain Name System Security Extensions...
Smartphone users can now add a new entry to the list of things they need to worry about: their phones being compromised via replacement parts. A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of...
Researchers who identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings won $100,000 from Facebook last week.
Information Security Researchers Fault GCHQ for Failing to Help WannaCry 'Hero'A report claims British intelligence agency GCHQ knew in advance that the FBI planned to arrest WannaCry "hero"...
A notorious hacking firm, probably best described as greyhats rather than white or blackhats, briefly breached the PlayStation Facebook and Twitter accounts on Sunday. read more
Personal and business data belonging to Boston area meeting and hotel booking provider Groupize was discovered in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, which has since been locked down.
It should come as no surprise that the upward trend of larger-scale attacks against critical infrastructure poses substantial cyber and physical risks across the enterprise. read more
Analyst Offers Insights on Technologies to Improve Digital Attribution and Voter AuthenticationAs threats and threat actors multiply and evolve, digital attribution becomes ever more critical,...
Third party trackers on web shops can identify users behind Bitcoin transactions (Help Net Security)
More and more shopping Web sites accept cryptocurrencies as a method of payment, but users should be aware that these transactions can be used to deanonymize them – even if they are using...
Elon Musk is leading demands for a global ban on killer robots, warning technological advances could revolutionise warfare and create new "weapons of terror" that target innocent people. read more