Security News > 2018 > May

StackRox: Security for Containerization and Microservices
2018-05-04 17:48

CTO Ali Golshan on Threat Prevention, Detection and ResponseStackRox CTO Ali Golshan says his firm helps organizations that use containers and microservices to secure their cloud applications via...

How Authentication Must Evolve in the Age of GDPR
2018-05-04 16:48

Forticode's Tony Smales on Regulatory, Human Behavior ChallengesPrivacy regulations, user satisfaction concerns and the need to prevent data breaches are driving more organizations that must...

Breakthrough pushes Quantum Key Distribution beyond 500km
2018-05-04 16:37

It's getting better, but is it getting better fast enough?

Hackers Target Flaws Affecting a Million Internet-Exposed Routers
2018-05-04 15:46

Just a few days after they were disclosed, malicious actors started targeting a couple of flaws affecting routers made by South Korea-based Dasan Networks. There are roughly one million...

New Rowhammer attack can be used to hack Android devices remotely
2018-05-04 15:22

Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to use a Rowhammer attack to remotely hack Android phones. What is a Rowhammer attack? “The Rowhammer attack...

Backdoored Module Removed from npm Registry
2018-05-04 14:38

A malicious package masquerading as a cookie parsing library but delivering a backdoor instead was unpublished from the npm Registry along with three other packages. read more

Indegy Launches Industrial Security Risk Assessment Service
2018-05-04 14:02

Industrial cybersecurity firm Indegy on Thursday announced the launch of a risk assessment service designed to help organizations evaluate exposures in their operational technology (OT)...

Twitter reveals security blunder, asks users to change their passwords
2018-05-04 13:52

330 million Twitter users around the world have been urged to change their account password after a glitch resulted in some of them being stored in plaintext format inside the company network. How...

Twitter bug exposed passwords; here's how to change yours
2018-05-04 13:38

There's no indication that a recently discovered bug in Twitter's password storage was exploited, but the social media platform recommends everyone change their password to be on the safe side.