Security News > 2018 > July

Amazon Web Services announced general availability of a new high frequency instance (z1d) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as well as the memory optimized instances (R5) and memory...

105,000 Affected at Boys Town National Research HospitalA hacking incident at Boys Town National Research Hospital is the largest ever reported by a pediatric care provider or children's hospital,...

Shipping giant locks down US network after infection spotted International shipping giant Cosco says it working to recover from an apparent ransomware attack on its Americas network.…

Researchers found 20 flaws in Samsung’s SmartThings Hub controller - opening up supported third-party smart home devices to attack.

Researchers have unearthed a security flaw in a Swann security camera that allows attackers to spy on the video and audio feed of anyone’s camera. Swann SWWHD-Intcam is battery-powered, connected...

A newly discovered remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed Parasite HTTP includes a broad range of protections, including sandbox detection, anti-debugging, anti-emulation, and more, Proofpoint reports....

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam...

Threat detection and analytics are only as effective as the granularity the network infrastructure provides for packet access.

Companies that still rely on manual processes – security tools that require frequent tuning or manual CVE patching, for example – fare worse if they are breached.

Krebs on Security is reporting that all 85,000 Google employees use two-factor authentication with a physical token. A Google spokesperson said Security Keys now form the basis of all account...