Security News > 2018 > April

Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks
2018-04-10 20:26

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company...

How to Predict Insider Fraud
2018-04-10 20:26

CMU CERT Researcher Randy Trzeciak on the Power and Promise of Emerging TechnologyWhen insider threat researcher Randy Trzeciak looks at artificial intelligence and machine learning, he sees the...

Future-Proof Against Fraud
2018-04-10 20:26

Keith Carlson of Amazon Web Services on Making Smarter Investments in Skills, TechnologiesHow can we future-proof against fraud? Keith Carlson, general manager of payments and fraud prevention at...

The Burden of Business Email Compromise
2018-04-10 20:26

Agari's Dan Hoffmann Outlines the Scale and CostBusiness email compromise attacks that impersonate executives and business partners to trick employees are "the biggest security issue in all of...

Credit card companies will ditch purchase signatures by end of month
2018-04-10 20:04

Credit card transactions will no longer require signatures due in part to the rise of chip-based EMV cards, highlighting the digital transformation of retail.

Emergency alert systems used across the US can be easily hijacked
2018-04-10 19:35

A vulnerability affecting emergency alert systems supplied by ATI Systems, one of the leading suppliers of warning sirens in the USA, could be exploited remotely via radio frequencies to activate...

Microsoft Patches Two Dozen Critical Flaws in Windows, Browsers
2018-04-10 19:28

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for April 2018 resolve a total of 66 vulnerabilities, including nearly two dozen critical issues affecting Windows and the company’s web browsers. read more

Vulnerability in San Francisco’s Public Safety Warning Sirens Fixed
2018-04-10 19:01

A patched vulnerability in San Francisco’s public safety warning siren system suggests other radio-based platforms could also be hacked.

Mozilla: IoT a growing security concern, social fraud hitting 'epidemic proportions'
2018-04-10 18:58

Mozilla said the current 'online advertising economy is broken and easily bent to fraud and abuse.'

Practical passwordless authentication comes a step closer with WebAuthn
2018-04-10 18:48

Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google are all implementing the new standard.