Security News > 2018 > September

Destroyed Computer Hampers Lawsuit In Premera Breach
2018-09-04 11:33

Developer's Computer, A23567-D, Was Tagged End Of Life And DestroyedPlaintiffs in a class action suit against Premera Blue Cross allege the company willfully destroyed a computer that may have...

Less than a third of companies have dedicated cybersecurity insurance
2018-09-04 11:30

Only one third of senior executives in UK organisations admit their company insurance currently covers them for a security breach and for the financial impact of data loss, despite the fact that...

New Book Announcement: Click Here to Kill Everybody
2018-09-04 11:20

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. In it, I examine how our new immersive world of...

Data breach reports to Information Commissioner increase by 75%
2018-09-04 11:15

The number of reports of data security incidents received by the Information Commissioner (ICO) has increased by 75 per cent over the past two years, according to new analysis by Kroll. The...

Hollywood accuses itself of piracy
2018-09-04 11:00

As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.

Number of smartphone users relying on software-only biometric security to grow 250%
2018-09-04 11:00

A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the biggest shift in mobile payment security will be the move towards software-based methods, which rely on standard smartphone components. The...

CVE-2018-11776 — The Latest Apache Struts Vulnerability
2018-09-04 10:49

A Critical security flaw (CVE-2018-11776) impacts Apache Struts 2.3 through 2.3.34, Struts 2.5 through 2.5.16, and possibly unsupported versions of the popular Java framework.

Twitter to Verify Those Behind Hot-button US Issue Ads
2018-09-04 10:42

Twitter on Thursday started requiring those behind hot-button issue ads in the US to be vetted as part of the effort by the social network to thwart stealth campaigns aimed at influencing...

The 'Appropriate' Use of Analytics for Breach Detection
2018-09-04 10:33

The appropriate use of predictive analytics, going beyond a "set it and forget it" approach, could dramatically improve breach detection, says Teresa Grogan, CIO of the consultancy Vertitech IT.

Thousands of misconfigured 3D printers on interwebz run risk of sabotage
2018-09-04 10:30

Security controls aren't there to just look pretty, you know Internet-connected 3D printers are at risk of being tampered with or even sabotaged because users fail to apply security controls, a...