Security News > 2018 > May

Exploiting People Instead of Software: Report Shows Attacker Love for Human Interaction
2018-05-15 11:44

Cybercriminals Continue to Rely on Human Interaction to Conduct Wide Range of Attacks read more

The EFAIL vulnerability – why it’s OK to keep on using email
2018-05-15 11:18

The EFAIL bug shows how to trick some mail clients into turning the email encryption tools S/MIME and OpenPGP against themselves.

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants
2018-05-15 11:13

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States...

Prison phone service can expose the location of anyone with a phone
2018-05-15 11:06

The system requires that you have legal authority to use it, but doesn't check

Kaspersky Lab to Move Core Infrastructure to Switzerland
2018-05-15 10:42

Company Will Open Transparency Center in Zurich by 2019; Data From Customers in North America Will be Stored and Processed in Switzerland read more

Zero arrests, 2 correct matches, no criminals: London cops' facial recog tech slammed
2018-05-15 10:23

False positive rate of 98% doesn't count, say police, because 'checks and balances' London cops' facial recognition kit has only correctly identified two people to date – neither of whom were...

Mexico Investigates Suspected Cyberattacks Against 5 Banks
2018-05-15 10:17

$20 Million in Potential Losses After Real-Time Payment Connections CompromisedMexican officials are investigating a series of technical glitches that may have been a prelude to a large...

Wanna break Microsoft's Edge browser? Google's explained how
2018-05-15 04:58

JavaScript just-in-time compilation and some memory meddling make a mess Back in February 2018, Google's Project Zero went public with a Microsoft Edge bug that Redmond couldn't fix in time for...

Symantec Shares More Information on Internal Investigation
2018-05-15 04:43

Symantec shares gained nearly 10 percent on Monday in anticipation of a conference call that promised to provide more information regarding the internal investigation announced by the company last...

How could the Facebook data slurping scandal get worse? Glad you asked
2018-05-15 00:11

Three million "intimate" user profiles offered to researchers Yet another rogue Facebook app that gathered and sold "intimate" details on millions of users has come to light.…