Security News > 2018 > February

Now that the Supreme Court has declined to review a case stemming from a 2014 cyberattack on CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, what comes next? Attorney Patricia Carreiro analyzes the potential...

Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.

Phillips is developing a software update to mitigate 35 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities in the Philips IntelliSpace Portal (ISP), a clinical imaging visualization and analysis solution that is used...

PhishMe Becomes 'Cofense' After It's Purchased; Splunk Buys PhantomCybersecurity company mergers and acquisitions continue. Among the major deals: The sale of PhishMe to a privacy equity syndicate...

The CISSP Exam Study Guide provides a solid foundation for anyone preparing to become a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. It contains materials to prepare you for all 8 domains...

A newly detailed mobile malware can do more than steal data from infected devices: it can also record ambient audio and send the recordings to cloud storage accounts controlled by attackers. read more

Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers exposed to the...

At a white elephant party in northern Colorado in December, a friend of mine was telling me that he’d borrowed against his children’s college funds to put money into three different...

Berlin - Russian hackers have infiltrated Germany's foreign and interior ministries' online networks, German news agency DPA reported Wednesday quoting unnamed security sources. read more

Two major new product announcements were made at Fortinet’s Accelerate 18 conference this week, including a new machine learning (ML) threat intelligence and detection offering, along with a major...