Security News > 2018 > April

UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Chief Gets Two-Year Prison Term
2018-04-20 16:40

A British teenager who accessed the email accounts of top US intelligence and security officials including the head of the CIA was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. Kane Gamble, 18,...

Energy security pros worry about catastrophic failure due to cyberattacks
2018-04-20 16:40

70 percent of energy security professionals are concerned that a successful cyberattack could cause a catastrophic failure, such as an explosion, a recent survey has shown. Of the 151 IT and...

Unpatched Flaw Exposes LG NAS Devices to Remote Attacks
2018-04-20 16:31

Researchers claim hackers can remotely exploit an unpatched command injection vulnerability to take control of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from LG. VPN specialists at vpnMentor...

Machine learning allowed this company to detect Meltdown and Spectre before Intel broke the news
2018-04-20 16:28

At RSA 2018, Bill Conner, CEO of SonicWall, talks to TechRepublic about how AI and machine learning can help companies guard against in-memory attacks.

SSL partly responsible for dramatic Q1 2018 increase in malware and ransomware
2018-04-20 16:23

At RSA 2018, Bill Conner, CEO of SonicWall talks to TechRepublic about how companies can guard against malware carried by HTTPS.

When BEC scammers specialize
2018-04-20 15:41

A group of BEC scammers has been focusing its efforts on the global maritime shipping industry, compromising emails accounts and attempting to trick targets into delivering considerable sums to...

Akamai CSO Talks Cryptominers, IoT and the Reemergence of Old Threats
2018-04-20 15:39

Andy Ellis, CSO Akamai, discusses how the company works with others within the cybersecurity landscape to help keep the internet safe.

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data
2018-04-20 15:24

Threatpost's Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about his discoveries this week at the RSA Conference.

FDA Reveals New Plans for Medical Device Security
2018-04-20 15:17

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced its medical device safety action plan, which includes seeking additional funding and authorities that would help it improve...

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking
2018-04-20 15:06

Plenty of laser research already going on – but there's more than one way to melt a drone The EU is planning to build a laser cannon with double the power of Britain's under-construction...