Security News > 2018 > October

Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai
2018-10-10 00:41

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved...

US may have by far the world's biggest military budget but it's not showing in security
2018-10-10 00:30

GAO report finds more holes than a Swiss cheese, and very little hope for improvement If you were worried about the state of US military security systems you might not want to read the latest...

Acorus Network protects enterprises and service providers from DDoS attacks
2018-10-10 00:30

Acorus Networks is raising $6 million from Elaia Partners, Partech and Kima Ventures. This funding round will contribute to Acorus Networks’ mission to protect customers whose business activity...

Proxmox Mail Gateway 5.1 released
2018-10-10 00:00

Proxmox Server Solutions released version 5.1 of its open-source email security platform Proxmox Mail Gateway. The Mail Gateway is an operating system based on Debian Stretch 9.5 with a 4.15...

World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing
2018-10-09 23:51

Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers Yet another IoT device vendor has been found to be exposing their products to attackers with basic security lapses.…

Airbus and Atos awarded major cyber security contract to protect key EU institutions
2018-10-09 23:30

Airbus Defence and Space, through its Airbus CyberSecurity unit and partnering with Atos as coprime entity, have been selected by the Council of the European Union to provide cyber security...

WhatsApp patches potentially huge phone-to-pwn security bug
2018-10-09 22:56

Memory corruption flaw present in Android, iOS builds WhatsApp has patched a vulnerability it its smartphone code that would allow an attacker to crash a target's app simply by placing a call.…

It's October 2018, and Exchange can be pwned by an 8 year-old... bug
2018-10-09 21:31

Microsoft goes retro in latest Patch Tuesday bundle Microsoft has released the October edition of its monthly security update, addressing a total of 49 CVE-listed bugs.…

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Under Active Attack by APT
2018-10-09 21:24

A zero-day vulnerability tied to the Window’s Win32k component is under active attack, warns Microsoft.

Why Is Providing Patients Access to Records So Challenging?
2018-10-09 20:33

Study Shows Hospitals Inconsistent in Presenting Access OptionsAlthough HIPAA gives patients the right to access their health records in their preferred format - on paper or electronically - a new...