Security News > 2017 > August
OurMine is in headlines once again—this time for defacing WikiLeaks website. The notorious hacking group, OurMine, is known for breaching into high-profile figures and companies' social media...
A previously undocumented kill switch for a remote management feature baked into many Intel chips can be switched off.
How the Latest Updates Could Help Those Looking for SpecialistsNIST's recent updates to its precise definitions of various cybersecurity jobs are designed to help make recruiting more efficient -...
The Turla APT's WhiteBear toolset was used to attack defense organizations as recently as June, and diplomatic targets in Europe, Asia and South America during most of 2016.
Official Says No Major Outages Reported YetIn the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Texas hospitals have not yet reported issues involving access to electronic health records and other critical systems,...
Advantech has plugged nine security holes in WebAccess and has urged users to upgrade the software as soon as possible. Advantech WebAccess is a web browser-based software package for...
New paper: "Policy measures and cyber insurance: a framework," by Daniel Woods and Andrew Simpson, Journal of Cyber Policy, 2017. Abstract: The role of the insurance industry in driving...
For a second time this month, a Locky ransomware variant called IKARUSdilapidated is part of a calculated phishing attack targeting office workers with fake scanned image attachments.
LabVIEW, the widely used system design and development platform developed by National Instruments, sports a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution. LabVIEW is commonly...
Siemens fixed a session hijacking vulnerability in its LOGO! logic module Wednesday but says a second issue, one that could help facilitate a man-in-the-middle attack, has no fix currently.