Security News > 2018 > December

Marriott Mega-Breach: Will GDPR Apply?
2018-12-03 14:33

Legal Experts Suspect So, But Investigation Could Take a Year or MoreWill Marriott be the first organization that lost control of Europeans' personal data to feel the full force of the EU's...

Wanna save yourself against NotPetya? Try this one little Windows tweak
2018-12-03 13:40

NCC Group discovers network-saving quirk during worm tests An infosec firm has unleashed a NotPetya-style worm onto a customer’s network – and discovered that a simple Windows Active Directory...

Espionage, ID Theft? Myriad Risks From Stolen Marriott Data
2018-12-03 13:37

The data stolen from the Marriott hotel empire in a massive breach is so rich and specific it could be used for espionage, identity theft, reputational attacks and even home burglaries, security...

Lawsuits Filed Against Marriott Over Massive Data Breach
2018-12-03 13:34

Several lawsuits have been filed against Marriott International shortly after the hotel giant disclosed a data breach impacting as many as 500 million customers. read more

Become a Certified Hacker With This Hands-On Training Course
2018-12-03 13:33

It seems as though not a day goes by without news spreading over another major cyber attack. Hackers are becoming increasingly efficient at targeting everything from small startups to Fortune 500...

The DoJ's Secret Legal Arguments to Break Cryptography
2018-12-03 12:37

Earlier this year, the US Department of Justice made a series of legal arguments as to why Facebook should be forced to help the government wiretap Facebook Messenger. Those arguments are still...

Printers pulled into 9100 port attack spew PewDiePie propaganda
2018-12-03 12:37

Printers worldwide printed messages urging people to subscribe to the vlogger's YouTube channel in a demo of a well-known vulnerability.

Router attack exploits UPnP and NSA malware to target PCs
2018-12-03 12:35

The UPnProxy router compromise uncovered earlier in 2018 is now being used to attack computers on networks connected to the same gateways.

Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided
2018-12-03 11:55

Police raided 16 Indian call centers last week - a second big raid sparked by Microsoft filing complaints about tech support scammers.

Faster fuzzing ferrets out 42 fresh zero-day flaws
2018-12-03 11:46

A group of researchers has found 42 zero-day flaws in a range of software tools using a new take on an old concept - fuzzing.