Security News > 2018 > April

Flash! Ah-ahhh! WebEx pwned for all of us!
2018-04-19 00:12

Cisco issues critical patch to stop in-meeting attacks Cisco has patched a serious vulnerability in its WebEx software that lets an attacker remotely execute code on target machines via poisoned...

LocalBlox found leaking info on tens of millions of individuals
2018-04-18 23:15

LocalBlox, a US-based data technology company that “crawls, discovers, extracts, indexes, maps and augments data in a variety of formats from the web and from exchange networks” and ties it all...

In preparation for the GDPR, CoSoSys launches Endpoint Protector 5.1
2018-04-18 21:40

CoSoSys announced the latest update of its award-winning flagship Data Loss Prevention product, Endpoint Protector 5.1, which brings added functionalities to key features and a boost for GDPR...

Managing Third-Party Risks
2018-04-18 21:33

Bitsight's Tom Turner on Security RatingsManaging third-party risks is more critical than ever, says Tom Turner of BitSight Technologies, who discusses the urgency of communicating that to the board.

The Total Cost of Fraud
2018-04-18 21:03

IBM's Rob Rendell on How Financial Institutions Must Adopt a New Mindset in Fighting FraudRob Rendell spent more than a decade in financial services. Now he has joined IBM to help financial...

IBM introduces 'Adversarial AI toolbox' to keep your AI from getting attacked
2018-04-18 20:42

IBM machine learning researcher Maria-Irina Nicolae spoke with TechRepublic about how the company's new Adversarial Robustness Toolbox can protect AI from tampering.

How's your Wednesday? Things going well? OK, your iPhone, iPad can be pwned via Wi-Fi sync
2018-04-18 20:26

Don't panic… until you finish reading RSA 2018 The iTunes Wi-Fi sync feature in Apple's iOS can be potentially abused by cops, snoops, and hackers to remotely extract information from, and...

How's your Wednesday? Things going well? Ok, so your iPhone can be pwned over WiFi
2018-04-18 20:26

Don't panic… until you finish reading RSA 2018 The Wi-Fi sync feature in Apple's iOS can allow attackers to remotely copy and control iPhones, opening up the possibility of serious data theft.…

Preparing for Mid-Term Elections
2018-04-18 20:03

FBI's Elvis Chan on Efforts to Bolster Cybersecurity of Social MediaStung by signs of Russian influencing of the 2016 presidential election, the FBI is working with social media companies to...

Open-source library for improving security of AI systems
2018-04-18 19:50

IBM researchers have created the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, an open-source library to help researchers improve the defenses of real-world AI systems. Attacks against neural networks have...