Security News > 2017 > September
One of the 81 vulnerabilities addressed in the September 2017 Android security bulletin was a High risk issue that could be exploited to launch a new type of overlay attacks, Palo Alto Networks...
Frost & Sullivan found that the DDoS mitigation market generated a revenue of $816 million in 2016 and is expected to register a CAGR of 17.1 percent through 2021. Threat actors’ continuous...
Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even in instances where the phone's...
Justin G. Liverman, a 25-year-old from Morehead City, North Carolina, has been sentenced to prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted the online accounts of U.S. officials and...
Facebook is once again in trouble regarding its users' privacy. The social media giant has recently been heavily fined once again for a series of privacy violations in Spain. Recently, Google also...
Changing the PIN Will Cost $5-$10 and Is Done by Postal MailA 10-digit PIN used by consumers to freeze access to credit reports with Equifax is based on dates and times, several observers have...
A vulnerability affecting the Apache Struts 2 open-source development framework was reportedly used to breach U.S. credit reporting agency Equifax and gain access to customer data. read more
Do you want to make your own robot at home? But, of course, one can not spend hundreds or thousands of dollars, and definitely would not be able to join a 4-year-long engineering institute to...
A security researcher has discovered not one or two but a total of ten critical zero-day vulnerabilities in routers from Taiwan-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link which leave users...
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Patch your Android device to foil Toast Overlay attacks Overlay attacks are nothing new for Android users, and Palo...