Security News > 2018 > May

Schneider Electric Development Tools Affected by Critical Flaw
2018-05-02 12:12

Security firm Tenable has disclosed the details of a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Schneider Electric’s InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition products. read more

Time is running out, yet many US companies are not GDPR-ready
2018-05-02 11:45

A significant percentage of US companies are uncertain about or unprepared for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that takes effect later this month, according to a new...

NIST Issues Call for "Lightweight Cryptography" Algorithms
2018-05-02 11:40

This is interesting: Creating these defenses is the goal of NIST's lightweight cryptography initiative, which aims to develop cryptographic algorithm standards that can work within the confines of...

CEO priorities are shifting to embrace digital business
2018-05-02 11:30

Growth tops the list of CEO business priorities in 2018 and 2019, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner. However, the survey found that as simple, implemental...

Firefox isn’t adding ads, it’s ‘sponsored content’
2018-05-02 11:13

Mozilla promises all the revenue-generating analytics, none of the privacy-skewering.

Spring 2018 Password Attacks
2018-05-02 11:03

The first time I heard about distributed brute-force login attacks was from master web application firewall (WAF) administrator Marc LeBeau. At the time he was defending a hotel chain against...

Amazon, Google Block Trick That Let Encrypted Chats Flow
2018-05-02 10:03

But 'Domain Fronting' Was Also Used to Mask Cybercriminal ActivityFollowing in Google's footsteps, Amazon has closed a technical loophole that helped some online services evade censorship filters,...

10 Reasons To Break Up With Your Legacy SIEM
2018-05-02 09:44

The Value Most Organizations Get Out of Their SIEM Deployment is Far Lower Than it Used to Be read more

Over a Million Dasan Routers Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
2018-05-02 09:20

Researchers have disclosed the details of two unpatched vulnerabilities that expose more than one million home routers made by South Korea-based Dasan Networks to remote hacker attacks. read more

WhatsApp Group Video Call and Instagram Video Chat Are Coming Soon
2018-05-02 08:33

Facebook announced a whole lot of new features at its 2018 Facebook F8 developers conference, including Dating on Facebook, letting users clear their web browsing history, real-time language...