Security News > 2018 > April

Several U.S. Gas Pipeline Firms Affected by Cyberattack
2018-04-04 05:47

Several natural gas pipeline operators in the United States have been affected by a cyberattack that hit a third-party communications system, but the incident does not appear to have impacted...

New Android Malware Secretly Records Phone Calls and Steals Private Data
2018-04-04 02:14

Security researchers at Cisco Talos have uncovered variants of a new Android Trojan that are being distributed in the wild disguising as a fake anti-virus application, dubbed "Naver Defender."...

The Road to Actionable Threat Intelligence
2018-04-04 02:14

Processing and parsing intelligence from all sources - external and internal, structured and abstract - across three important categories is essential to a proactive, predictive threat...

The Do's and Don'ts of Reporting to the Board
2018-04-04 02:14

CISOs increasingly are summoned to present to their Boards of Directors. But too often these presentations fail to frame the right topics with the right metrics, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight. He...

5 Steps for Implementing an Effective Cyber SOC
2018-04-04 02:14

Cyber SOCs, the next generation of security operations centers, need to use a new approach to detecting emerging attacks, says Aadesh Gawde of the IT risk consultancy ProVise Consulting, who...

Verifying Vendors' Security Programs
2018-04-04 02:14

Organizations need to carefully assess - and then verify - the data security controls their existing - and prospective - vendors have implemented, says privacy and security expert Rebecca Herold,...

LinkedIn Breach: Russian Suspect Extradited to US
2018-04-04 02:14

Czechs Extradite Suspect Also Charged With Hacking Dropbox and FormspringRussian national Yevgeniy Nikulin, 30, has been extradited to the U.S. from the Czech Republic to face charges that he...

Google bans cryptomining Chrome extensions because they refuse to play by the rules
2018-04-03 20:56

Google continues to try to keep its browser running smoothly in spite of others’ efforts.

Female Suspect Dead, Several Hurt in YouTube Shooting
2018-04-03 20:52

Chaos Amid Shooting at YouTube Headquarters [UPDATE] Gunfire erupted at YouTube's offices in California Tuesday, leaving at least three people injured and sparking a panicked escape before the...

Cloudflare launches privacy-protecting DNS service
2018-04-03 20:28

If you’ve been offline during the weekend you might have missed Cloudflare announcing a new privacy-oriented consumer DNS service, hosted at the following IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. With...