Security News > 2018 > January
In 2017 the GDPR buzz reached peak intensity, even in the cybersecurity community. It practically drowned out any mentions of another important upcoming EU law: The Network and Information...
Despite awareness of the need for cybersecurity, many consumers are not taking proactive steps to keep their personal information protected from identity theft. With the increased volume of...
VMware has patched three critical vulnerabilities in vSphere Data Protection (VDP), including arbitrary file upload, authentication bypass and path traversal issues. read more
Retailer Confirms US Payment Card Data Breach; International Probe ContinuesApparel retailer Forever 21 says point-of-sale systems in some stores were infected by malware for up to seven months,...
IT can fail. It often does. We restart IT, and life goes on. Hackers can also compromise these same IT systems creating disruptions and causing theft of credentials. All manners of serious...
Edward Snowden and Nathan Freitas have created an Android app that detects when it's being tampered with. The basic idea is to put the app on a second phone and put the app on or near something...
Researchers have apparently discovered a serious vulnerability affecting all Intel CPUs. Software-level mitigations have already been developed, but they could cause significant performance...
A researcher with the Twitter handle ‘Siguza’ published details of a macOS local privilege escalation vulnerability dating back to 2002 that could give an attacker root access to systems.
Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts have found their way...
Researchers discovered that many online services designed for managing location tracking devices are affected by vulnerabilities that expose potentially sensitive information. Fitness, child, pet...