Security News > 2018 > January

More than half of US-based employees have never heard of GDPR
2018-01-10 13:30

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline approaching, new research from MediaPro shows more than half of US-based employees have never heard of the forthcoming regulation. With...

Cybersecurity and the 2017 US National Security Strategy
2018-01-10 13:27

Commentaries on the 2017 US national security strategy by Michael Sulmeyer and Ben Buchanan....

How Antivirus Software Can be the Perfect Spying Tool
2018-01-10 13:14

Your antivirus product could be spying on you without you having a clue. It might be intentional but legitimate behavior, yet (malicious) intent is the one step separating antivirus software from...

Apps most frequently blacklisted by enterprise security teams
2018-01-10 13:00

Appthority released its Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report for Q4 2017, which details the apps most frequently blacklisted by enterprise mobility and security teams. Most blacklisted apps For...

Microsoft, Intel Share Data on Performance Impact of CPU Flaw Patches
2018-01-10 09:13

Microsoft and Intel have shared more information on the performance impact of the patches released for the recently disclosed attack methods known as Spectre and Meltdown. read more

Microsoft Releases Patches for 16 Critical Flaws, Including a Zero-Day
2018-01-10 03:35

If you think that only CPU updates that address this year's major security flaws—Meltdown and Spectre—are the only ones you are advised to grab immediately, there are a handful of major security...

Daniel Miessler on My Writings about IoT Security
2018-01-09 21:26

Daniel Miessler criticizes my writings about IoT security: I know it's super cool to scream about how IoT is insecure, how it's dumb to hook up everyday objects like houses and cars and locks to...

Microsoft January Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 16 Critical Bugs
2018-01-09 21:25

Thanks to Meltdown and Spectre, January has already been an extremely busy month of patching for Microsoft.

Troubles with Meltdown and Spectre security patches
2018-01-09 20:34

During his CES keynote on Monday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said that updates for Meltdown and Spectre for more than 90 percent of the company’s processors introduced in the past five years will be...

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability in Office
2018-01-09 20:33

Microsoft’s January 2018 Patch Tuesday updates address more than 50 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day vulnerability in Office related to an Equation Editor flaw that has been exploited by...