Security News > 2017 > September

U.S. Politicians Demand Probe of Equifax After Hack
2017-09-15 10:41

A senior US senator called Wednesday for a federal investigation of credit rating agency Equifax after the company lost the personal data of 143 million customers to hackers. read more

Kaspersky CEO to Testify Before Congress
2017-09-15 08:58

After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a binding operational directive ordering government departments and agencies to stop using products from Russia-based Kaspersky Lab, the...

Gauging Equifax's Future in Wake of Massive Breach
2017-09-15 07:18

Top IT security and information risk experts, including former RSA Executive Chairman Art Coviello, analyze the struggles Equifax faces in the wake of a massive data breach in the latest edition...

Yet Another Android Malware Infects Over 4.2 Million Google Play Store Users
2017-09-15 03:04

Even after so many efforts by Google, malicious apps somehow managed to fool its Play Store's anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. The same happened once again when...

Mozilla Implements Faster Diffie-Hellman Function in Firefox
2017-09-15 02:40

Mozilla on this week revealed plans to introduce a new key establishment algorithm in Firefox to improve both security and performance of the web browser. read more

75,000 Turks Arrested So Far for Downloading Encrypted Messaging App
2017-09-15 01:23

WARNING: If you are Turkish and using or have installed ByLock—a little-known encrypted messaging app—you could be detained by Turkish authorities. You might be thinking why??? Because using this...

2017-09-14 20:52

Security researchers have discovered over 4,000 Elasticsearch servers compromised to distribute and control PoS malware. 99 percent of them are hosted by Amazon. What is Elasticsearch?...

Equifax Confirms March Struts Vulnerability Behind Breach
2017-09-14 20:00

Equifax divulged on Wednesday that the culprit behind this summer's breach of 143 million Americans was an Apache Struts vulnerability, CVE-2017-5638, patched back in March.

Azure Confidential Computing will keep data secret, even from Microsoft
2017-09-14 19:03

Virtual machines and hardware features will provide secrecy.

Premium SMS Malware ‘ExpensiveWall’ Infects Millions of Android Devices
2017-09-14 18:49

Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware dubbed ExpensiveWall.