Security News > 2018 > October

Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
2018-10-01 14:02

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it's easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put...

Why nearly 50% of organizations are failing at password security
2018-10-01 13:56

Employees are sharing an average of six passwords with their coworkers, according to the LastPass 2018 Global Password Security Report.

5 signs that blockchain will hit wide enterprise adoption soon
2018-10-01 13:54

Blockchain has the potential to enable new business models and reshape industries, but many enterprises are struggling to implement the technology, according to Deloitte.

Industry Reactions to Facebook Hack
2018-10-01 13:48

Facebook revealed last week that malicious actors may have obtained access tokens for 50 million accounts after exploiting several bugs related to the “Vi read more

RDP Increasingly Abused in Attacks: FBI
2018-10-01 13:18

Cyberattacks leveraging the remote desktop protocol (RDP) have been on the rise for the past couple of years, fueled by the emergence of dark markets selling RDP access, the Federal Bureau of...

Financial Conduct Authority fines Tesco Bank £16.4m over 2016 security breach
2018-10-01 13:14

Every little helps: Penalty slashed with 60% discount The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has slapped a £16.4m fine on Tesco Bank for the security vulnerabilities that led to millions of pounds...

GhostDNS: New DNS Changer Botnet Hijacked Over 100,000 Routers
2018-10-01 13:03

Chinese cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a widespread, ongoing malware campaign that has already hijacked over 100,000 home routers and modified their DNS settings to hack users with...

The Scandals Bedevilling Facebook
2018-10-01 12:52

Facebook is at the centre of controversy yet again after admitting that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said engineers discovered the...

Telegram Leaks User IP Addresses
2018-10-01 12:51

A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop results in the end-user public and private IP addresses being leaked during a call, a security researcher has discovered. read more

WWW inventor announces Solid, a push to create a decentralized web users can trust
2018-10-01 12:50

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has not been hiding his disappointment with the direction in which his invention was taken. “The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and...