Security News > 2018 > April

Saks, Lord & Taylor Suffer Payment Card Data Breach
2018-04-02 11:03

5 Million Payment Cards Apparently Stolen by the Carbanak Gang, aka JokerStashDepartment store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor have suffered a data breach that...

Tumblr troll-ban follows February indictments
2018-04-01 00:00

Russian pro-propaganda accounts boosted, but posts remain in place so users can delete them or not A group of Russian “troll factory” operators indicted in February were tagged by Tumblr last year.…

We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack
2018-04-01 00:00

Turns out performance at all costs has been rather costly Around 2003, a computer security portent that had been cheerlessly simmering away for years suddenly came to the boil.…

UK.gov unveils cyber security export strategy – only thing missing is the strategy
2018-04-01 00:00

More b*llsh... IT The UK government has published a details-light "cyber security export strategy" intended to help local SMEs win contracts abroad - despite having struggled to boost its own...

Did the FBI engineer its iPhone encryption court showdown with Apple to force a precedent? Yes and no, say DoJ auditors
2018-04-01 00:00

Official report blows lid on behind-the-scenes Analysis On December 2, 2015 Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik attended his employer's holiday party in San Bernardino, California – and...

Hackers pwn Baltimore's 911 system?! Quick, someone call 91– doh!
2018-04-01 00:00

Miscreants go down to the wire meddling with emergency dispatch's server The US city of Baltimore suffered a brief outage on part of its 911 service at the weekend – and hackers are being blamed.…

Microsoft's Windows 7 Meltdown fixes from January, February made PCs MORE INSECURE
2018-04-01 00:00

You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up...

Intel shrugs off ‘new’ side-channel attacks on branch prediction units and SGX
2018-04-01 00:00

Been there, mitigated that, got the class actions, says Chipzilla Intel’s shrugged off two new allegations of design flaws that enable side-channel attacks.…

Privacy activists to UK plod: Wanna slurp folks' phone records? Come back with a warrant
2018-04-01 00:00

Lack of regulation and records risks abuse, says charity Cops should need a search warrant to slurp information from peoples' phones, Privacy International has said as it calls for a government...

Most FTSE 100 boards kept in the dark about cyber resilience plans
2018-04-01 00:00

Infosec bods worry it could be used against firms if disclosed Only one in five FTSE 100 companies disclose testing of online business protection plans.…