Security News > 2018 > September

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
2018-09-26 09:03

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015,...

Variations in State Data Breach Disclosure Laws Complicate Compliance
2018-09-26 07:11

New data breach notification laws are good news for consumers, better news for attorneys, but not very good news for businesses already struggling to stay on top of a constantly evolving...

Crowdfense launches Vulnerability Research Hub for top security researchers
2018-09-26 06:58

Crowdfense officially launched the Vulnerability Research Hub out of beta. After being internally developed and fine-tuned for several months, Crowdfense opened their process-oriented platform to...

Cybersecurity has a diversity problem: Here’s why
2018-09-26 06:00

I’ve gotten really good at listing really depressing and disheartening stats over the years. It’s not what I want to be good at, but I’ve found that it’s necessary to help people understand that...

New tactics subvert traditional security measures and strike organizations of all sizes
2018-09-26 05:45

Alert Logic released its latest cybersecurity analysis, “Critical Watch Report: The State of Threat Detection 2018,” which shows attackers are gaining vastly greater scale through new techniques...

Full compliance with the PCI DSS drops for the first time in six years
2018-09-26 05:30

After documenting improvements in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance over the past six years (2010 – 2016), Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security Report (PSR) now reveals...

Cryptocurrency mining malware increases 86%
2018-09-26 05:15

McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report September 2018, examining the growth and trends of new cyber threats in Q2 2018. In the second quarter, they saw the surge in cryptomining malware...

Siemplify harnesses machine learning for smarter security operations
2018-09-26 03:30

Siemplify revealed new machine learning capabilities in its security operations platform. With this new version, security operations teams can expedite day-to-day workflow activities such as...

Optiv Security announces SecurePayment@Optiv to drive security across the entire payment lifecycle
2018-09-26 02:30

Optiv Security announced SecurePayment@Optiv, an integrated portfolio of services and technologies that enables organizations to move beyond basic Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI...

ExtraHop brings enterprise network traffic analysis to the cloud through Microsoft Azure
2018-09-26 01:30

ExtraHop announced the availability of Reveal(x) for Microsoft Azure. With Reveal(x) for Microsoft Azure, enterprise security and cloud operations teams now have network traffic analysis (NTA)...