Security News > 2018 > December

Marriott's Mega-Breach: Many Concerns, But Few Answers
2018-12-03 11:33

Massive Breach Prompts Calls for New Data Security and Minimization LawsMarriott's mega-breach underscores the challenges companies face in securing systems that come from acquisitions as well as...

Sharp rise in email and social media hacking in the UK
2018-12-03 11:17

Police forces across the UK are coming under increasing pressure to launch criminal investigations into incidents of social media and computer hacking, according to a new report from the...

Russian Hackers Use BREXIT Lures in Recent Attacks
2018-12-03 09:59

Infamous Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Sofacy used BREXIT-themed lure documents in attacks on the same day the United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May announced the initial BREXIT draft...

Kaspersky's U.S. Government Ban Upheld by Appeals Court
2018-12-03 06:57

The U.S. government’s ban on software made by Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab remains in place, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, ruled on Friday. The court said Kaspersky...

Detecting malicious behavior blended with business-justified activity
2018-12-03 06:00

With organizations moving to the cloud and remote workers becoming the rule rather than the exception, the definition of the network is changing. Add to this the increasing use of IoT devices,...

NATO Exercises Cyber Defences as Threat Grows
2018-12-03 05:55

In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line. read more

Elasticsearch Instances Expose Data of 82 Million U.S. Users
2018-12-03 05:47

Personal information of over 82 million users in the United States was exposed via a set of open Elasticsearch instances, Hacken security researchers warn. read more

Making it harder for attackers to know when a system begins to deceive a bad actor
2018-12-03 05:45

Can you deceive a deceiver? That’s the question that computer scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York have recently been exploring. Assistant Professor of Computer...

Best practice methodology for industrial network security: SEC-OT
2018-12-03 05:30

Secure Operations Technology (SEC-OT) is a methodology and collection of best practices inspired by a decade of experience working with secure industrial sites. The SEC-OT approach is...

What cloud platforms are DevOps professionals being asked to understand?
2018-12-03 05:15

Cloud Academy released its November 2018 Data Report revealing trends and shifts in the cloud computing industry. The world is trending multi-cloud Multi-cloud has become reality and Cloud...