Security News > 2018 > October

Autonomous cybersecurity company Hmatix announces  $500K in seed funding
2018-10-05 00:30

Hmatix announced it has raised $500K in seed-stage funding. The company, founded in 2017 by industry experts, is led by CEO Dev Gandhi. Gandhi previously was co-founder of Nexage, which AOL-...

Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth?
2018-10-04 23:01

Who's your money on? Bloomberg's sources? Apple? Amazon? Super Micro? Analysis Chinese government agents managed to slip spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple, the US...

Dutch cheesed off with Russians, expel four suspects over chemical weapons Wi-Fi spying
2018-10-04 21:37

Russia hits back: Do not 'swallow these provocations' Four alleged Russian agents have been expelled from the Netherlands after they attempted to hack the chemical weapons watchdog probing the...

Conspiracy Theories Around the "Presidential Alert"
2018-10-04 20:03

Noted conspiracy theorist John McAfee tweeted: The "Presidential alerts": they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones - giving them full access to your location, microphone, camera...

ThreatList: 83% of Routers Contain Vulnerable Code
2018-10-04 19:25

Five out of six name brand routers, such as Linksys, NETGEAR and D-Link, contain known open-source vulnerabilities.

Virus Bulletin 2018: Turla APT Changes Shape with New Code and Targets
2018-10-04 19:14

Russian-speaking Turla has also racked up more victims in its latest APT campaign.

Whose hack is it anyway? Cyberattack whodunnits harder than ever to solve
2018-10-04 18:51

Sophisticated groups not always so easy to pick out The growing market for commercial malware, the intermingling of state-sponsored agency's code and the blurring lines between political and...

BlackBerry's new blockchain tools could boost security for medical IoT
2018-10-04 18:39

Fresh off the announcement of its Spark platform, BlackBerry unveiled a host of tools aimed at improving data privacy in healthcare.

The top 10 cyberthreats IT security teams are facing right now
2018-10-04 17:00

Some 70% of organizations experienced a security breach in the past year, according to a report from Cyren and Osterman Research.

Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack
2018-10-04 16:30

Bloomberg is reporting about a Chinese espionage operating involving inserting a tiny chip into computer products made in China. I wrote about (alternate link) this threat more generally in May....