Security News > 2018 > May

Siemens informed customers on Tuesday that some of its SIMATIC S7-400 CPUs are affected by a high severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability. read more

Universal Plug and Play networking protocols can be exploited to bypass DDoS mitigations.

Messages from the Signal desktop application for Mac are not deleted from the machine, but instead copied to the notifications bar, where they persist, a security researcher warns. read more

Attackers can use the Universal Plug and Play protocol to hide packet sources during a DDoS attack.

Open source components have been increasingly used by developers, but failure to patch vulnerabilities in this type of software can pose serious risks. read more

Adobe has issued a round of higher priority patches less than a week after its Patch Tuesday updates last week.

The EU's new data protection rules that enter into force later this month are having an impact around the world as firms, including in the United States and China, move to comply. read more

The Dutch government is phasing out the use of anti-virus software made by Russian firm Kaspersky Lab amid fears of possible spying, despite vehement denials by the Moscow-based cyber security...

Agency Will Ditch Previous HIPAA Privacy Rule Revamp Plan, Seek New IdeasFederal regulators plan to craft a new proposal for revamping a HIPAA Privacy Rule provision for "accounting of...

An update released over the weekend for the desktop version of the privacy-focused communications app Signal patches a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited for remote code...