Security News > 2018 > November

Radisson Suffers Global Loyalty Program Data Breach
2018-11-02 12:48

Hotel Giant Has Yet to Disclose Total Number of Affected VictimsRadisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach that resulted in the theft of data for its global loyalty program members. The...

Australian Shipbuilder Hacked, Refuses to Pay Ransom
2018-11-02 12:48

Austal Says Material Is Neither Sensitive Nor ClassifiedAustralia's largest defense exporter says it hasn't responded to an extortion attempt after ship design schematics were stolen by a hacker....

Google’s stealthy sign-in sentry can pick up pilfered passwords
2018-11-02 12:24

The search giant's secret sauce can see when somebody's using your stolen password.

Feds Accuse Ex-CIA Employee of Continuing Leaks From Prison
2018-11-02 11:36

Federal prosecutors beefed up charges against a former CIA employee Wednesday, saying he has leaked classified national defense materials while incarcerated. read more

Radisson Hotel Group Hit by Data Breach
2018-11-02 11:22

Radisson Hotel Group this week informed members of its rewards program that their personal information may have been stolen as a result of a breach. read more

What's that? SSH can still use RC4? Not for much longer, promise
2018-11-02 11:20

IETF hackathoners point the 'die-die-die' gun at another buggy cipher A hackathon next week will see 'net developers get to work consigning more insecure cryptography to the /dev/null of history.…

Report reveals one-dimensional support for two-factor authentication
2018-11-02 11:19

34 popular consumer websites were put to the 2FA test.

How to Punish Cybercriminals
2018-11-02 11:01

Interesting policy paper by Third Way: "To Catch a Hacker: Toward a comprehensive strategy to identify, pursue, and punish malicious cyber actors": In this paper, we argue that the United States...

Cisco security appliances under attack, still no patch available
2018-11-02 10:27

A vulnerability (CVE-2018-15454) affecting a slew Cisco security appliances, modules and firewalls is being exploited in the wild to crash and reload the devices, the company has warned on...

The Escalating Problem of Protecting Connected Devices
2018-11-02 10:18

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features Kevin McDonald of the Mayo Clinic discussing how to secure connected medical devices. Plus, updates on the indictments of Chinese agents for...