Security News > 2017 > September

Amazon's Whole Foods Investigating Payment Card Breach
2017-09-29 05:46

Whole Foods Market, the supermarket chain acquired recently by Amazon for $13.7 billion, informed customers this week that it has launched an investigation after learning that some of its...

Amazon's Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores
2017-09-29 00:32

Another day, another data breach. This time Amazon-owned grocery chain has fallen victim to a credit card security breach. Whole Foods Market—acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late...

Google to Enforce HSTS on TLDs it Operates
2017-09-28 20:00

Google, through Google Domains, operates many TLDs, and this week said it would begin enforcing HSTS on those TLDs. HSTS forces secure client connections over HTTPS.

How Apple’s Face ID works, learns, and protects
2017-09-28 19:36

Apple has unveiled a new version of its privacy page and a paper throwing more light on how Face ID, its newest biometric authentication option, works on iPhone X (“Ten”). The former places even...

New Internet Explorer Bug
2017-09-28 19:21

There's a newly discovered bug in Internet Explorer that allows any currently visited website to learn the contents of the address bar when the user hits enter. This feels important; the site I am...

Civil Liberties Activists Hit By Phishing Campaign
2017-09-28 18:40

Digital civil liberty activists with Fight for the Future and Free Press were hit with a phishing emails designed to steal business credentials earlier this summer.

Laying the foundation for a proactive SOC
2017-09-28 18:09

Most companies are trying to shift their Security Operations Center (SOC) from a reactive to a proactive posture. To do that, the analysts’ reaction to security events must become swift, and...

Espionage Attack Uses Scripts for Data Exfiltration
2017-09-28 16:53

A recently detected espionage campaign is delivered via malicious emails, but maintains presence on compromised machines by using scripts instead of a binary payload, Malwarebytes researchers have...

Behind the Beard Lurked a Darknet Drug Lord, DEA Alleges
2017-09-28 16:18

Agency Says It Traced Bitcoins From Vendor 'Tip Jar' to Frenchman Gal ValleriusFrench competitive beard-grower Gal Vallerius was arrested in Atlanta while traveling to the World Beard and...

Apple Silently Patched macOS Security Bypass Flaw
2017-09-28 16:05

Researchers claim Apple has silently patched a macOS vulnerability that can be exploited to bypass one of the operating system’s security features and execute arbitrary JavaScript code without...