Security News > 2018 > April

Uber Faces Stricter FTC Oversight After Concealing Breach
2018-04-13 15:19

Company Must Submit More Audit Reports, Keep Bug Bounty RecordsUber has agreed to stricter monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following its concealment of a 2016 data breach while it...

One in 10 C-level execs say GDPR will cost them over $1 million
2018-04-13 14:15

Companies are taking the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) much more seriously than HIPAA and PCI: 99 percent are actively involved in the process to become GDPR-compliant, despite the...

Ransomware attacks are on the rise. Should businesses pay up or focus on tightening security?
2018-04-13 14:05

TechRepublic's Dan Patterson and Bill Detwiler, and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discussed a recent Verizon report on the rise of ransomware, and the pros and cons of meeting attackers' demands.

Hackers Start Exploiting Drupalgeddon2 Vulnerability
2018-04-13 14:01

Attempts to exploit a recently patched vulnerability in the Drupal content management system (CMS) were spotted by researchers shortly after someone published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. read more

Why Mass Transit Could Be the Next Big Target for Cyber Attacks—and What to do About it
2018-04-13 13:47

The constantly evolving tools and methods of cyber attackers has resulted in specific industries becoming the unfortunate subjects of sudden upswings in incident volume and severity. In recent...

Britain Says Russia Spied on Skripals Before Poisoning
2018-04-13 13:15

Russia was spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were poisoned with a nerve agent, Britain's National Security Adviser Mark...

25 Million U.S. Individuals Impacted by 2016 Uber Hack
2018-04-13 13:09

The 2016 data breach that Uber made public in November 2017 impacted over 25 million riders and drivers in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveals. read more

Instagram bends to GDPR – a “download everything” tool is coming
2018-04-13 12:48

The tool will let you get at your photos, videos and messages

SnoopSnitch shows Android users what security patches are missing from their phone
2018-04-13 12:43

Although Android device manufacturers are claiming their devices are completely up to date, researchers found that, for some OEMs, patches are secretly missing.