Security News > 2018 > March

Macro-less word document attacks on the rise
2018-03-30 12:00

WatchGuard released its Internet Security Report for Q4 2017. Among the report’s most notable findings, threat intelligence showed that total malware attacks are up by 33 percent, and that cyber...

The current state of USB data protection
2018-03-30 11:45

Data protection, whether related to personal customer or patient information, is critical across virtually all industries. So how can organizations best protect their most sensitive and...

Worldwide spending on security solutions to reach $91 billion in 2018
2018-03-30 11:30

Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 billion in 2018, an increase of 10.2% over the amount spent in 2017. This pace of growth is...

Unlocking iPhones with Dead People's Fingerprints
2018-03-30 11:11

It's routine for US police to unlock iPhones with the fingerprints of dead people. It seems only to work with recently dead people....

20 Arrested in Italy and Romania for Spear Phishing Scam
2018-03-30 10:36

Authorities this week arrested 20 individuals in Italy and Romania for their role in a banking phishing scam that defrauded bank customers of €1 million ($1.23 million). The arrests were the...

Critical Flaw Exposes Many Cisco Devices to Remote Attacks
2018-03-30 08:15

Cisco has patched more than 30 vulnerabilities in its IOS software, including a critical remote code execution flaw that exposes hundreds of thousands – possibly millions – of devices to remote...

Microsoft Fixes Windows Flaw Introduced by Meltdown Patches
2018-03-30 04:29

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to address a serious privilege escalation vulnerability introduced earlier this year by the Meltdown...

Foreign Companies in China Brace for VPN Crackdown
2018-03-30 03:14

Chinese people and foreign firms are girding for a weekend deadline that will curb the use of unlicensed software to circumvent internet controls, as the government plugs holes in its "Great...

Under Armour Says 150 Million Affected in Data Breach
2018-03-29 21:50

Sports gear maker Under Armour said Thursday a data breach of its fitness application was hacked, affecting some 150 million user accounts. The Baltimore, Maryland-based company said it had...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
2018-03-29 20:50

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our...