Security News > 2018 > May

Critical PGP vulnerability could reveal text of your encrypted business emails
2018-05-14 12:45

The vulnerability, called EFAIL, is exploitable against encrypted email, including previously transmitted mail, according to researchers.

Nest turns up the temperature on password reusers
2018-05-14 12:41

Nest's advice to its users gets a thumbs-up from the Online Trust Alliance.

Emails Encrypted With OpenPGP, S/MIME Vulnerable to New Attacks
2018-05-14 12:40

Researchers from three universities in Germany and Belgium say they have discovered attack methods that can be used by malicious actors to read emails encrypted with OpenPGP and S/MIME, but some...

Warehouse full of digital copiers yields truckloads of secrets
2018-05-14 12:36

Copiers' hard drives aren't typically encrypted or wiped. One result: a used copier with 300 people's medical records: just hit "print!"

Protecting your business behind a shield of privacy
2018-05-14 12:27

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Francis Knott, VP of Business Development at Silent Circle, talks about the modern privacy landscape, and introduces Silent Circle’s Silent Phone...

Is Google’s Duplex AI helpful or plain creepy?
2018-05-14 12:19

Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai used the company’s annual I/O event to demo an experimental new feature of Google Assistant: Duplex.

Remote code execution bug found in GPON routers, but how bad is it really?
2018-05-14 12:07

An anonymous researcher recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in several older models of Dasan-made GPON routers.

Nuance Communications Breach Affected 45,000 Patients
2018-05-14 11:48

Former Employee Allegedly Accessed Personal Data From Several Nuance ClientsSpeech recognition software vendor Nuance Communications says an unauthorized third party accessed one of its medical...

GDPR compliance: Identifying an organization’s unique profile
2018-05-14 11:30

After a two-year transition period, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable beginning 25 May 2018. Presumably, many large companies have been working on a compliance...

Personal encryption usage is increasing
2018-05-14 11:25

According to a Venafi survey of 512 security professionals attending RSA Conference 2018, sixty-four percent of respondents say their personal encryption usage has increased due to recent...