Security News > 2018 > November

FIFA, hacked again, is leaking like a sieve
2018-11-05 13:13

Football shockers started to flow on Friday, after journalists analyzed more than 70m exfiltrated documents, totaling 3.4 terabytes of data.

Eye Clinic Sees Quick Recovery from Ransomware Attack
2018-11-05 12:48

Despite Fast Rebound, Entity Still Reporting Data BreachAn Iowa eye clinic and its affiliated surgery center recently recovered from a ransomware attack on their common systems within one day and...

Should company bosses face jail for mishandling your privacy?
2018-11-05 12:06

A proposed bill calls for executives to be jailed for not protecting consumers' data, or at least for lying about it.

Vulnerabilities’ CVSS scores soon to be assigned by AI
2018-11-05 11:57

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is planning to use IBM’s Watson to evaluate how critical publicly reported computer vulnerabilities are and assign an appropriate severity...

Georgia Election Further Complicated By Hacking Accusation
2018-11-05 11:48

Secretary of State - and Republican Candidate - Probes State's Democratic PartyGeorgia's Republican gubernatorial candidate has accused the state's Democratic Party of attempting to hack the...

PortSmash attack steals secrets from Intel chips on the side
2018-11-05 11:46

Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys.

ICS Devices Vulnerable to Side-Channel Attacks: Researcher
2018-11-05 10:35

Side-channel attacks can pose a serious threat to industrial control systems (ICS), a researcher warned last month at SecurityWeek’s ICS Cyber Security Conference in Atlanta, GA. read more

Heighten your organisation’s risk awareness at the SANS Security Awareness summit
2018-11-05 10:31

Raise your security expertise to a new level Promo Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.…

Buy, Rent, or Uber Your Security Operations Center
2018-11-05 10:08

What better way to provide continuous monitoring and analysis than through a security operations center (SOC)? But a SOC is complex and expensive.

What You Need to Know about the Recent Apache Struts Vulnerability
2018-11-05 09:55

Researchers recently revealed a vulnerability in Apache Struts, a popular type of enterprise software. Active exploit attempts weren’t far behind.