Security News > 2018 > October

Boffin: Dump hardware number generators for encryption and instead look within
2018-10-01 22:47

Chip timing could be as effective and harder to hack Hardware-based random number generators (HWRNGs) for encryption could be superseded after a Philippines-based researcher found that...

Adobe Patches 47 Critical Flaws in Acrobat and DC
2018-10-01 21:22

The update includes a security bypass bug that enables privilege escalation.

Desktop Telegram users showing off not only their silly selfies but also their IP addresses
2018-10-01 20:05

Researcher earns $2,000 for unmasking flaw Telegram has paid out a €2,000 bounty to a researcher who uncovered a vulnerability that caused the messaging app to expose users' IP addresses. The...

SOC Analytics: Building the Right Toolset
2018-10-01 19:18

As attackers become more adept at evading "reactive" security controls and alert mechanisms, proactively analyzing the behaviors of people and systems is critical to detecting malicious activity,...

Nine NAS Bugs Open LenovoEMC, Iomega Devices to Attack
2018-10-01 18:55

Rated as high-risk vulnerabilities, these privilege-escalation flaws could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access protected content.

Fileless Malware Attacks on the Rise, Microsoft Says
2018-10-01 18:01

Fileless malware attacks, or incidents where the malicious payload doesn’t touch the disk, but is executed directly in memory instead, are on the rise, Microsoft says. read more

Top 5 things to know about voting and the blockchain
2018-10-01 18:00

From security to anonymity, here are the top 5 things you should know about blockchain and voting.

California, U.S. Government Battle Over Net Neutrality State Law
2018-10-01 17:52

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit after SB 822 was passed, enforcing net neutrality laws, on Sunday.

FDA Reveals Steps to Bolster Medical Device Cybersecurity
2018-10-01 17:48

'Playbook' Prepared; Data Sharing Efforts PlannedIn its ongoing quest to improve the state of medical device cybersecurity, the FDA has announced a number of key moves - including the release of a...

Micronaut: Framework for building microservice and serverless applications
2018-10-01 16:53

Object Computing announced the first release candidate (RC1) for Micronaut, a new framework for building microservice and serverless applications. Micronaut was built by the same software...