Security News > 2018 > May

51% of companies publicly exposed cloud storage services in the past year
2018-05-15 13:27

Hacks involving AWS S3 storage servers highlight security challenges enterprises face in the race to the cloud, according to RedLock.

Kaspersky Lab's move from Russia to Switzerland fails to save it from Dutch oven
2018-05-15 13:08

Netherlands turns up the heat as transparency plans unveiled It has been a busy few days for beleaguered antivirus-flinger Kaspersky Lab. Today's confirmation of an infrastructure move to...

Report: Facebook App Exposed 3 Million More Users' Data
2018-05-15 13:03

Revenge of the Personality Test, Take TwoResearchers at the University of Cambridge, via a myPersonality test on Facebook, reportedly used data from 3 million users to power a spin-off company...

The pace of vulnerability disclosure shows no signs of slowing
2018-05-15 13:00

Unless the pace of vulnerability disclosure slows down in the coming quarters, we are looking at yet another record-breaking year, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Q1 Vulnerability...

Facebook app left 3 million users’ data exposed for four years
2018-05-15 12:51

Highly sensitive user data collected from the app was left on a badly secured website for anybody to get at.

Police dog sniffs out USB drive to snare school hacker
2018-05-15 12:41

Police traced an "electronic trail" to the suspect's house where the USB drive was hidden.

The next Android version’s killer feature? Security patches
2018-05-15 12:26

Not before time, Google is addressing the mess it's made of Android updates

New DDoS Attack Method Obfuscates Source Port Data
2018-05-15 12:11

Recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks showed evidence of a new method being used to bypass existing defenses by obfuscating source port data, Imperva says. read more

Combating fraud and money laundering with graph analytics
2018-05-15 12:00

Dirty money and money laundering have been around since the existence of currency itself. On a global level, as much as $2 trillion is washed annually, estimates the United Nations. Today’s...

Automating web app testing to secure your environment
2018-05-15 11:45

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Dave Ferguson, Director, Product Management for Web Application Security at Qualys, talks about the challenges and benefits of automating web app...