Security News > 2018 > August

Election Security: FBI Combats Information Operations
2018-08-31 13:48

Senate Calls Social Media Firms to Testify as Election Security Bill StallsIt's less than 10 weeks until your country's elections; do you know where your government's information warfare defenses...

How to block ad trackers from following you on Firefox
2018-08-31 13:19

Mozilla's Firefox will soon block browser ad trackers by default, but here are the 3 steps to do it yourself now.

Fourth 'Fappening' celeb nude snap thief treated to 8 months in the clink
2018-08-31 13:02

Porridge for pic purloiner The last of the four hackers collared for stealing and leaking people's private nude photos from their online accounts back in 2014 has been sentenced to eight months'...

Lenovo and Pivot3 optimize smart city security
2018-08-31 12:44

Lenovo and Pivot3 announced a strategic partnership to develop, market and sell a new set of edge computing solutions optimized for mission-critical smart city security. The integrated appliances...

Vault, QuintessenceLabs and Ziroh Labs to create encryption to secure government data
2018-08-31 12:43

Vault will collaborate with QuintessenceLabs and Ziroh Labs with the aim of creating secure and scalable package for enterprise file synchronisation and sharing (EFSS) systems hosted in an secure...

Moogsoft announces Observe expanding its AIOps platform capabilities
2018-08-31 12:43

Moogsoft announced the launch of Moogsoft Observe. This technology extends Moogsoft’s core AIOps platform capabilities from centralized analytics outwards to the data source, providing IT teams...

Monnit and Cradlepoint partner to deliver wireless connectivity solutions for IoT
2018-08-31 12:42

Monnit announced a partnership with Cradlepoint, to offer wireless sensor-to-cloud connectivity solutions for IoT. Under the partnership, Monnit’s ALTA wireless sensor adapters integrate with...

One in five employees share their email password with co-workers
2018-08-31 12:41

Negligent employees remain the number one cause of data breaches at small businesses across America. So why do small businesses continue to struggle with good cyber security practices and what can...

Researchers Draw Connections Between APTs
2018-08-31 12:34

A newly discovered threat group shares similarities with three advanced persistent threats (APTs), Trend Micro security researchers have discovered. read more

The anatomy of fake news: Rise of the bots
2018-08-31 12:00

Spreading misinformation has become a mainstream topic to the extent that even the term ‘Twitter bot’ is a well-recognised term establishing itself into the modern lexicon. Whilst the term is well...