Security News > 2017 > October

Jennings Aske on Getting Serious About Medical Device Security
2017-10-31 16:47

Jennings Aske, CISO of New York-Presbyterian, says the healthcare sector is still struggling to figure out medical device security and contends that federal regulations have not been helpful in...

Post-WannaCry, UK Promises NHS England a Funding Injection
2017-10-31 16:47

But Solving Cybersecurity Problems Requires More Than Pounds and PenceFollowing the WannaCry outbreak, the British government says it's increased cybersecurity funding for England's national...

Francisco Partners Acquires Comodo CA
2017-10-31 16:01

Tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Comodo CA Limited, Comodo’s certificate authority business, for an undisclosed amount. read more

Google to Remove Support for PKP in Chrome
2017-10-31 15:46

Google is planning to deprecate and eventually completely remove support for public key pinning (PKP) from the Chrome web browser. read more

Firefox to Block Canvas-based Browser Fingerprinting
2017-10-31 15:35

Firefox will soon provide users with increased privacy by blocking browser fingerprinting performed through the HTML5 canvas element. read more

Attack on Old ANSI Random Number Generator
2017-10-31 15:29

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a paper that pointed to a potential flaw in the ANSI X9.17 RNG standard. Now, new research has found that the flaw exists in some implementations of the RNG standard....

The clock is ticking on GDPR: Is your business ready?
2017-10-31 15:22

Despite having almost two years to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there are companies across the globe that have done little, if anything, to avoid the hefty fines for...

Oracle releases emergency Oracle Identity Manager patch
2017-10-31 14:56

Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch that plugs a critical vulnerability (CVE-2017-10151), affecting Oracle Identity Manager, its widely-used enterprise identity management system that is part...

Threat Intelligence Firm Recorded Future Raises $25 Million
2017-10-31 14:39

Threat intelligence provider Recorded Future today announced that it has raised $25 million in a Series E round of funding Led by Insight Venture Partners. read more

Mozilla Raises Concerns Over DigiCert Acquiring Symantec CA
2017-10-31 14:32

Mozilla has raised some concerns regarding DigiCert acquiring Symantec’s website security and related public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions after major web browser vendors announced that...