Security News > 2017 > September

Hospitals and physicians need to ramp up their security scrutiny of electronic health records systems as a result of recent changes in the Department of Health and Human Services' certification of...

While critical infrastructure has been targeted by sophisticated threat actors, attacks that rely on commonly available and easy-to-use tools are more likely to occur, said Europol in its 2017...

Apple said that macOS' native Gatekeeper security feature would protect against a Keychain attack disclosed this week, but researcher Patrick Wardle said that won't help against Mac malware signed...

Signal is testing out a new private contact discovery service that will let the app determine if a user has Signal contacts in their address book, but forbid its servers from accessing the users’...

Researchers Use Heart Rhythms for Continuous Passive Authentication read more

More and more attacks against ATMs are network-based, Trend Micro researchers have found. Since the discovery of the first ATM malware back in 2009, criminals have concentrated on opening the...

It's the age of "open banking," and that means changes for banking institutions and their customers - as well as for the fraudsters. Shaked Vax of IBM Security Trusteer talks about new...

'Cash Out' Malware Attackers Increasingly Infect ATMs From Afar, Experts WarnAttackers are increasingly hacking into banks' networks to gain access to the IT infrastructure connected to their...

An "epidemic" has erupted in global ransomware attacks, taking over computers as well as internet-linked devices like routers and CCTV cameras to turn them into tools for criminals, Europe's...

A high risk security vulnerability that could be exploited to escalate privileges has been patched in Linux kernel after being initially discovered more than two years ago. read more