Security News > 2018 > January

Several major tech companies have started releasing patches and mitigations for the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting CPUs from Intel, AMD and ARM. read more

After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one...

Information on nearly a quarter million Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees was exposed as part of an "unauthorized transfer of data", the DHS announced.  read more

Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location...

Unlike the initial reports suggested about Intel chips being vulnerable to some severe ‘memory leaking’ flaws, full technical details about the vulnerabilities have now been emerged, which...

Immediate concern is for Intel chips, but everyone is at risk.

Details of "Meltdown" and "Spectre" Attacks Against Intel and AMD Chips Disclosed read more

Experts Assess Modifications and Whether Further Alignment With HIPAA Is NeededDespite receiving requests to better align a federal rule regarding the confidentiality of substance abuse records...

The newly released Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report from Imperva Incapsula features insights on attacks and mitigation. These are some of the key findings: Bitcoin was one of the most...

Ad targeters are exploiting browsers’ built-in login managers to covertly collect hashes of users’ email addresses, to be used to track them across the web. “Email addresses are unique and...