Security News > 2018 > May

Law forcing Feds to get warrants for email slurping is sneaked into US military budget
2018-05-30 21:35

House slips privacy rules into Senate's files, crosses fingers The US House of Representatives has once again advanced a law bill that would always require the FBI and cops to obtain a warrant...

Yet Another Twist in Messy Aetna Privacy Breach Case
2018-05-30 20:18

Health Insurer Sues Organizations That Represented HIV Patients in Earlier Privacy DisputeA messy legal case involving a 2017 privacy breach that has already cost Aetna about $20 million in...

Bug In Git Opens Developer Systems Up to Attack
2018-05-30 20:12

A serious vulnerability was patched by developers behind Git that closes the door on a flaw that could lead to arbitrary code execution on a developer's system.

Botnet Operators Team Up To Leverage IcedID, Trickbot Trojans
2018-05-30 20:10

The botnet operators behind two infamous trojans have banded together to gouge victims in a costly scheme.

Yahoo! merc! hacker! Karim! Baratov! gets! five! years! in! the! clink!
2018-05-30 19:09

Canadian avoids maximum stretch behind bars after doing FSB's bidding The Canadian mercenary hacker who helped Russian agents break into thousands of Yahoo! webmail accounts will be spending up to...

HTTP Parameter Pollution Leads to reCAPTCHA Bypass
2018-05-30 19:02

Earlier this year, a security researcher discovered that it was possible to bypass Google’s reCAPTCHA via HTTP parameter pollution. read more

Vulcan Cyber announces continuous vulnerability remediation platform and $4M seed round
2018-05-30 19:00

Israeli startup Vulcan Cyber today announced $4 million in seed funding for its mission to eliminate the vulnerability remediation gap that unnecessarily exposes enterprises to massive cyber risk....

Attacking hard disk drives using ultrasonic sounds
2018-05-30 18:43

Another group of researchers has demonstrated that hard disk drives (HDDs) can be interfered with through sound waves, but they’ve also shown that ultrasonic signals (i.e., sounds inaudible to the...

Yahoo Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach
2018-05-30 17:32

Fortune 500 breaches seem to be a theme this week.

SpamCannibal blacklist service reanimated by squatters, says everything's spam
2018-05-30 17:20

Yes, even you Defunct blacklisting service SpamCannibal was hijacked early on Wednesday morning, sowing email chaos in the process.…