Security News > 2018 > September

VPNFilter Router Malware Adds 7 New Network Exploitation Modules
2018-09-27 10:33

Security researchers have discovered even more dangerous capabilities in VPNFilter—the highly sophisticated multi-stage malware that infected 500,000 routers worldwide in May this year, making it...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS Mojave 10.14 Zero-Day Vulnerability
2018-09-27 07:33

The same day Apple released its latest macOS Mojave operating system, a security researcher demonstrated a potential way to bypass new privacy implementations in macOS using just a few lines of...

Fancy Bear still Putin out new modules for VPNFilter malware
2018-09-27 07:30

Talos turns up obfuscation, lateral attacks, and proxies Cunning malware VPNFilter remains under active development, and is acquiring ever more dangerous features.…

'Mutagen Astronomy' Linux kernel vulnerability sighted
2018-09-27 06:01

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS users at risk A new Linux kernel vulnerability that can only be locally exploited is nonetheless proving a bit of a nuisance.…

The state of network security in organizations with 1000+ employees
2018-09-27 05:30

Security team size at the largest organizations does not scale with the number of overall employees, but they are more likely to include staff with specialized roles, say the results of the latest...

You should prepare for the next mega data breach
2018-09-27 05:15

As of September 2018, it’s been one year since the historical Equifax mega data breach that impacted nearly half of all consumers in the U.S. Since this monumental invasion of personal data,...

Downloads of known vulnerable open source components increase 120%
2018-09-27 05:00

Sonatype today released its fourth annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report, which reveals the widespread use of vulnerable software components by businesses around the world. While open...

Most enterprises now running Windows 10, security hygiene no longer optional
2018-09-27 04:45

Security is galvanizing around the move to Windows 10, the operating system that the majority of companies now run in their organizations, according to the 2018 Enterprise Endpoint Security Survey...

Shadow Search: Find cyber threats across the open, deep and dark web
2018-09-27 03:00

Digital Shadows has announced the availability of Shadow Search – providing security analysts with a search tool to make decisions to protect their organization from cyber threats. Previously...

ShiftLeft announces code-informed runtime protection for Microsoft’s .Net Framework
2018-09-27 02:30

ShiftLeft announced the general availability of its security-as-a-service platform for Microsoft’s .Net Framework. .Net developers can now leverage the commercial source code analysis solution...