Security News > 2017 > September

Dragonfly 2.0: Hacking Group Infiltrated European and US Power Facilities (The Hackers News)
2017-09-07 06:50

The notorious hacking group that has been in operation since at least 2011 has re-emerged and is still interested in targeting the United States and European companies in the energy sector. Yes, I...

Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA's Secret Missile Control System (The Hackers News)
2017-09-07 04:20

Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its...

Hackers Can Silently Control Siri, Alexa & Other Voice Assistants Using Ultrasound (The Hackers News)
2017-09-07 01:23

What if your smartphone starts making calls, sending text messages, and browsing malicious websites on the Internet itself without even asking you? This is no imaginations, as hackers can make...

HIPAA Compliance Audits: The Future Is Murky (InfoRiskToday)
2017-09-06 22:33

OCR Official Avoids Spelling Out Plans for the ProgramWill HHS, under the Trump administration, create a permanent HIPAA compliance audit program? And what's next for the ongoing second phase of...

Tor Project Brings Security Slider Feature to Android App Orfox (Threatpost)
2017-09-06 21:05

Tor Project developers recently bolstered Orfox, a Tor Browser for Android devices, to help privacy-conscious mobile browsers better customize their security.

Security flaw affects 750,000 Estonian ID cards (Help Net Security)
2017-09-06 19:31

An international group of cryptographers has flagged a serious security vulnerability in the chip embedded in Estonian ID cards, the country’s Information System Authority has announced. “Estonian...

IDN Homograph Attack Spreading Betabot Backdoor (Threatpost)
2017-09-06 18:16

An IDN homograph attack leveraging Adobe’s brand has been discovered, with the malicious site spreading the Betabot backdoor

Axonius announces $4M seed round to secure the explosion of connected devices (Help Net Security)
2017-09-06 18:00

Israeli startup Axonius today announced $4 million in seed funding for its mission to secure and manage the growing billions of connected devices in use by businesses. Backing for the technology...

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Huawei Bootloaders (Threatpost)
2017-09-06 17:55

Researchers find six previously unknown memory corruption and unlock-bypass vulnerabilities in major chipset vendors' firmware code.

13 Critical Remote Code Execution Bugs Fixed in September Android Update (Threatpost)
2017-09-06 17:12

Google fixed 81 vulnerabilities, including 13 critical remote code execution bugs, in the September edition of its Android Security Bulletin on Tuesday.