Security News > 2017 > September
Costly cyber attacks are having a significant and growing financial impact on businesses worldwide. According to Accenture and the Ponemon Institute, in 2017 the average cost of cyber crime...
McAfee Labs saw healthcare surpass public sector to report the greatest number of security incidents in Q2, while the Faceliker Trojan helped drive quarter’s 67% increase in new malware samples...
Companies and government agencies are overwhelmed by frequent, severe ransomware attacks, which have now become the #1 cyber threat to organizations, according to Crowd Research Partners. How...
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. read more
Google’s Project Zero released a proof-of-concept attack against a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chips that backdoors the iPhone 7. The flaw was patched in iOS 11.
Cisco has closed a backdoor that could have allowed hackers with access to the networking giant’s systems to take control of customers’ Umbrella Virtual Appliance devices. read more
Full Scope of Potential Breach Remains UnknownFast-food chain Sonic is investigating a potential breach involving customers' payment card data. Its alert follows a large, potentially related batch...
It’s been 22 years since Sandra Bullock struggled to reclaim her identity from cyber-terrorists in The Net, a movie that opened our eyes to the risks of digital identity theft way ahead of its...
Police investigations have pointed to North Korea as responsible for recent attempts to hack South Korea's virtual currency exchanges, a report said Wednesday. read more