Security News > 2017 > December

Only one in four IBM mainframe customers questioned in a new UK survey are confident that their system security complies with the incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 31 percent...

A memo from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns that China-based Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), one of the world’s largest drone manufacturers, has been providing information on...

Global e-commerce business PayPal has disclosed a data breach that may have compromised personally identifiable information for roughly 1.6 million customers at a payment processing company PayPal...

PayPal informed customers on Friday that personal information for 1.6 million individuals may have been obtained by hackers who breached the systems of its subsidiary TIO Networks. read more

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Stealthy in-browser cryptomining continues even after you close window Hackers are testing new ways for keeping...

A former employee—who worked for an elite hacking group operated by the U.S. National Security Agency—pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later...

A member of the US National Security Agency's elite hacking team has been charged with illegally removing top secret materials, in an embarrassing breach for the crucial electronic espionage body....

Beaked whales, living off the coasts of Ireland, feed on squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog...

Senators Propose New Data Protection Bill Following Equifax and Uber Breaches read more

Two newly discovered .NET-based ransomware families are using open source repositories to encrypt users’ files, Zscaler security researchers say. read more