Security News > 2018 > June

EFF Sues to Repeal Controversial Online Sex Trafficking FOSTA Law
2018-06-29 17:51

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the recently passed controversial FOSTA law.

RAMpage Attack Explained—Exploiting RowHammer On Android Again!
2018-06-29 17:18

A team of security researchers has discovered a new set of techniques that could allow hackers to bypass all kind of present mitigations put in place to prevent DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against...

How to improve software vulnerability disclosure in Europe
2018-06-29 16:44

As software gets embedded in more and more things we use every day, the problem of software vulnerability reporting and patching rises in importance. Unfortunately, only a few European countries...

Rowhammer Variant ‘RAMpage’ Targets Android Devices All Over Again
2018-06-29 16:27

The attack allows malicious applications to break out of their sandbox and access the entire operating system, giving an adversary complete control of the targeted device.

Two Arrested for Hacking 700,000 Accounts
2018-06-29 16:19

Russian law enforcement this week said two individuals were arrested for compromising accounts of loyalty program members from popular websites. read more

Facebook App Exposed Data of 120 Million Users
2018-06-29 16:04

A recently addressed privacy bug on Nametests.com resulted in the data of over 120 million users who took personality quizzes on Facebook to be publicly exposed. read more

8 Highlights: Scottish 'Big Data' Cybersecurity Conference
2018-06-29 16:03

Cloud Forensics, Fraud, Extortion and Cyber Sociology Dominate Edinburgh EventWhat are hot cybersecurity topics in Scotland? The "International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security" in...

Massive Breach at Data Broker Exactis Exposes Millions of Americans
2018-06-29 15:10

Security Researcher Vinny Troia has discovered another sensitive database exposed on the internet. This one uses Elasticsearch, which allows easy data searching over the internet. Elasticsearch...

Conservation of Threat
2018-06-29 14:44

Here's some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay about the research: To study how...

California Consumer Privacy Act: What businesses need to know
2018-06-29 14:33

California recently passed the act, which allows users to control how their data is shared with companies.