Security News > 2017

Google patched a critical hole in its problematic Android Mediaserver component that could have allowed an attacker to use email, web browsing, and MMS processing of media files to remotely execute code.

Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu talks about the benefits of taking the YARA training class available at SAS 2017.

In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker convincingly makes the point that by pretty much every measure you can think of, violence has declined on our planet over the long term. More...

Despite showing moves toward earlier and more frequent security testing throughout the development process, there are still hurdles development and security teams must overcome when it comes to...

Confidential documents and data belonging to Box.com users were accessible via search engine queries. Box.com has "fixed" the issue.

The rush to connect a security incident at a Vermont utility to Russian government hackers is more evidence of the challenges around attribution.

A security researcher claims that data belonging to doctors deployed in the United States Special Operations Command was left unsecured online.

Every day, the cybersecurity landscape changes. Each new device connected to the network presents a new target for attackers that needs to be secured, and each new social media post creates new...

There's a concept from computer security known as a class break. It's a particular security vulnerability that breaks not just one system, but an entire class of systems. Examples might be a...

If you haven’t moved at least some of your data to the cloud, you will. It’s inevitable at this point. Even the most highly secured organizations have some of their data on the cloud. What happens...