Security News > 2018 > February

Policies Offer Incentives for Good Information Security PracticesApple and Cisco say they've partnered with insurers Aon and Allianz to offer cyber insurance policies for organizations that meet...

Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in EnglandLauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the...

Cisco has reissued patches for a critical vulnerability affecting some of the company’s security appliances after identifying new attack vectors and additional affected features, and determining...

A critical vulnerability discovered in the Chrome and Firefox browser extension of the grammar-checking software Grammarly inadvertently left all 22 million users' accounts, including their...

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability in the online grammar checker Grammarly that could have been exploited by malicious websites to access user data. The app’s...

A new crypto-mining botnet has been growing and targeting Android devices with an open ADB port, Qihoo 360's NetLab researchers reveal. read more

A CNN reporter found...

VA OIG Report Spotlights Some of the ChallengesA new report from a Veterans Affairs watchdog agency on a guest Wi-Fi network that was set up at a VA medical center without coordination with VA IT...

The grammar-checking web service fixed the problem with "impressive" speed, a Google researcher says.