Security News > 2018 > May

'Original Internet Godfather' Opens Up on Crimes
2018-05-03 12:47

Brett Johnson on Why He Turned From Committing Fraud to Fighting ItBrett Johnson stole millions in a fraud career that made him one of the FBI's most wanted criminals. But now he's sharing his...

Beware of Russian attackers impersonating LoJack security software to hack computers
2018-05-03 12:20

The popular anti-theft software, which is built into many popular computers at the BIOS level, is being impersonated by Fancy Bear.

Dig this: The future of crypto-mining botnets
2018-05-03 12:15

The blockchain sector is now bursting with innovation, with developers looking for new, pragmatic ways to use this secure distributed ledger technology across a range of applications. And as...

Password behaviors remain largely unchanged
2018-05-03 12:00

Despite today’s increased threat landscape and heightened global awareness of hacking and data breaches, password behaviors remain largely unchanged. Data from a survey conducted by Lab42 shows...

Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal
2018-05-03 11:54

Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the...

Securing the digital future with Vera and Canon Solutions America
2018-05-03 11:45

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Ajay Arora, founder of Vera Security, and Peter Kowalczuk, President at Canon Solutions America, talk about their recent partnership, challenges...

Facebook fires engineer accused of stalking women
2018-05-03 11:45

The accused is alleged to have abused their privileged access to your data.

LC4: Another Pen-and-Paper Cipher
2018-05-03 11:42

Interesting symmetric cipher: LC4: Abstract: ElsieFour (LC4) is a low-tech cipher that can be computed by hand; but unlike many historical ciphers, LC4 is designed to be hard to break. LC4 is...

Most top travel websites fail to protect user security
2018-05-03 11:30

Dashlane examined password and account security on 55 of the world’s most popular travel-related sites, and found that 89% of sites leave their users’ accounts perilously exposed to hackers due to...

Australian Bank Lost Data For 19.8 Million Accounts
2018-05-03 10:18

Commonwealth Bank Says Risks From Loss Of Two Magnetic Tapes Are LowCommonwealth Bank has confirmed that two magnetic tapes containing transaction information for 19.8 million accounts went...