Security News > 2018 > October

Health websites routinely share your activity with 57 third-parties
2018-10-09 04:30

B9 Systems conducted research into the use of cookies by health websites and discovered that all the major players share your private information with, on average, 57 other websites. These include...

Google now minus Google Plus: Social mini-network faces axe in data leak bug drama
2018-10-08 22:22

Project Zero would have been all over this – yet it remained under wraps Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by shuttering the service over the next ten months in the wake of a...

SIEM, UBA, UEBA... If you're suffering netsec acronym overload, then here's our handy guide
2018-10-08 21:09

Is there a difference and does it matter? Comment In a little more than 20 years, what quaintly used to be called "network security" has gone from simple firewalling and VLANs to talk of analytics...

Google Says Social Network Bug Exposed Private Data
2018-10-08 20:13

Google announced Monday it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts. The US internet giant said it...

Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data
2018-10-08 19:33

Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to...

Preventing a 'Doomsday' Healthcare Cyber Event
2018-10-08 19:18

The healthcare sector needs to continue upping its ante in cybersecurity to prevent potentially catastrophic "doomsday" events that could devastate regional healthcare systems, says Erik Decker,...

Apple to Congress: Chinese spy-chip story is “simply wrong”
2018-10-08 18:25

"Our internal investigations directly contradict every consequential assertion."

New Exploit for MikroTik Router WinBox Vulnerability Gives Full Root Access
2018-10-08 15:48

A known vulnerability in MikroTik routers is potentially far more dangerous than previously thought. A cybersecurity researcher from Tenable Research has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) RCE...

Code Execution Flaws Found in WECON Industrial Products
2018-10-08 15:38

A significant number of vulnerabilities have been found recently in products from China-based WECON, but the vendor has been slow to release patches. read more

California to Ban Weak Passwords
2018-10-08 15:28

California Bill Requires Unique Passwords in Connected Devices The state of California recently passed a bill that requires the manufacturers of connected devices to use unique hardcoded passwords...