Security News > 2018 > April

Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
2018-04-01 00:00

I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…

US spanks EU businesses in race to detect p0wned servers
2018-04-01 00:00

175 days from breach to action could prove very expensive when GDPR kicks in European organisations are taking longer to detect breaches than their counterparts in North America, according to a...

Gosh, these 'hacker' nerds are only getting more sophisticated
2018-04-01 00:00

Trustwave report flags up the security flashpoints of 2017 Hackers have moved away from simple point-of-sale (POS) terminal attacks to more refined assaults on corporations' head offices.…

Don't want to alarm you, but defence bods think North Korea could nuke UK 'within a few years'
2018-04-01 00:00

Report on threat posed by rogue state demands more cash for government hackers North Korea maintains a hacking base in China, the UK Parliament's Defence Select Committee has been told, while...

1.5 BEEELLION sensitive files found exposed online dwarf Panama Papers leak
2018-04-01 00:00

Borked FTP, SMB, rsync, and S3 buckets fingered Security researchers have uncovered 1.5 billion business and consumer files exposed online – just a month before Europe's General Data Protection...

Bot-ched security: Chat system hacked to slurp hundreds of thousands of Delta Air Lines, Sears customers' bank cards
2018-04-01 00:00

Hi! How may we pwn you today? Hackers are feared to have swiped sensitive personal information held by two of the best known companies in the US – after malware infected a customer support software maker.…

Buggy Verge crypto-cash gets hacked, devs go fork themselves, hard
2018-04-01 00:00

Alt-currency's value tumbles amid malicious mining mishaps The Verge cryptocurrency has seen its value drop by 25 per cent after hackers exploiting a bug in the alt-coin's software forced its...

NUC, NUC! Who's there? Intel, warning you to kill a buggy keyboard app
2018-04-01 00:00

No joke: another security SNAFU for Chipzilla, this time for a popular remote admin app Intel has made much of its NUC and Compute Stick mini-PCs as a way to place computers to out-of-the-way...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a terrible leak of drone buyers' data
2018-04-01 00:00

Tens of thousands of online shoppers' payment details left totally unencrypted Exclusive A popular drone dealership website left its entire transaction database exposed online with no encryption...

Botched upgrade at Belgian bank Argenta sparks phishing frenzy
2018-04-01 00:00

Fraudsters seize advantage as transfers, balances grind to halt Belgian bank Argenta has apologised for a botched tech plumbing upgrade that delayed transfers and confronted customers with...