Security News > 2018 > June

The opposite of serendipity - a security camera service sent video alerts to the wrong user... who just happened to be a BBC journalist.

New patents suggest Facebook's going to soon know when you're asleep, when you're awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you're going to die.

After a spate of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS), the US this week officially recognized the need to secure them with a new bill.

Twitter has added the ability to authenticate to the service using hardware tokens such as Yubico’s YubiKey.

Arbor's Alcoy Believes DDoS May No Longer Remain Just an External ThreatMirai-like, distributed denial of service attacks launched by IoT devices are an indication that DDoS may no longer be an...

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail was hit by a significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appears to have been carried out by a group linked to Russia. read more

If your Google Home, Home Mini and/or Google Chromecast streaming stick were not working properly, you are not alone. Google Home, Home Mini, and Chromecast were down globally for many users for...

Security training and awareness should be at the top of your layered security strategy to ensure your employees are less of a liability, and the risk of a breach is significantly lower.

France has joined the US and Russia in seeking the extradition of a Russian held in Greece for allegedly laundering $4 billion using the bitcoin digital currency, a court source said Wednesday. read more

'Exceptional access' is a really bad idea, says standards-setter, but one-off malware is cool The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has joined the ranks of objectors to...