Security News > 2017 > August
Over the past few years, massive data breaches have become more frequent and so common that pretty much every week we heard about some organisation being hacked or hacker dumping tens of millions...
Microsoft patched 25 critical vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution bug in Windows Search.
Attackers behind APT campaigns have kept busy in Q2 2017, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users...
Department of Homeland Security, Vendor Issue Warnings About Cyber FlawsThe Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert warning about cyber vulnerabilities in certain Siemens medical...
The hackers who’ve breached HBO and supposedly made off with 1.5TB of the company’s data have released a second data dump. According to the Associated Press and Dissent Doe (at DataBreaches.net),...
Organisations who fail to implement effective cyber security measures could be fined as much as £17 million or 4 per cent of global turnover, as part of plans to make Britain’s essential networks...
SAP this week released another set of security patches for its products to address a total of 19 vulnerabilities, most of which are rated Medium severity. read more
The UK government has announced its plans for a new Data Protection Bill. This was foreshadowed in the Queen's Speech of 21 June when she announced, "A new law will ensure that the United Kingdom...
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2017 address a total of 48 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Office and Outlook. read more