Security News > 2017 > August

I seem to have a LinkedIn account. This comes as a surprise, since I don't have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn. Does anyone have any contacts into the company? I would...

Doctor Also Ordered to Pay $268 Million in RestitutionA Dallas physician has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $268 million in restitution for his role in a...

A report on the state of SCADA and ICS security points out that critical infrastructure operators are caught between hackers and a lack of vendor and executive support.

A spyware family called SonicSpy was found on three apps available on the Google Play store as well as on more than 1,000 apps available on third-party app stores.

WikiLeaks has published documents that describe a remote tool allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to collect RTSP/H.264 video streams. read more

Microsoft Says It Will Be More Accommodating to Third-Party Anti-VirusKaspersky Lab says it will withdraw antitrust complaints it filed against Microsoft over how Windows handles third-party...

Microsoft Agrees to Kaspersky Lab's Demands Microsoft and Kaspersky are friends again, and the whole anti-virus ecosystem is at peace.  read more

HBO offered a reward of $250,000 in response to a data breach at the television group that produces "Game of Thrones," according to a report from a leaked memo. The report by Variety on Thursday...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, APT trends, a mystery company's 250K bug bounty, and a high schooler's $10K bug bounty from Google.

Symantec has released an update for its Messaging Gateway email security product to address remote code execution and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities. The more serious of the...