Security News > 2018 > May

The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea....

Jigsaw, an incubator run by Google parent Alphabet, this week announced the availability of Project Shield – which offers free distributed denial of service (DDoS) protections – for the U.S....

Last week, we reported about the first network-based remote Rowhammer attack, dubbed Throwhammer, which involves the exploitation a known vulnerability in DRAM through network cards using remote...

Hackers who targeted Mexico's interbank payment system made off with more than $15 million in the past several weeks, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday. The amount of funds involved in the...

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Defence Secretary compares them to... WW2 Lancasters. Just a sec there, Gav Britain's first permanently based F-35B fighter jets are due to arrive in our green and pleasant land in June.…

A 37-year-old Latvian resident was convicted by a U.S. jury on Wednesday for his role in the operation of a counter antivirus service named Scan4You. Sentencing is scheduled for September 21. read more

Python pogrommer may have outed himself on YouTube Already under attack by Russia's telecommunications regulator, a new source of woe has emerged for crypto-chat app Telegram: malware.…

Send enough crafted packets to a NIC to put nasties into RAM, then the fun really starts Hard on the heels of the first network-based Rowhammer attack, some of the boffins involved in discovering...

Scan scam? Scram The US Federal government has got its second conviction in the dismantling of a service that helped malware writers get around security software.…