Security News > 2018

Shared Accounts Increasingly Problematic for Critical Infrastructure: ICS-CERT
2018-01-16 09:34

Assessments conducted last year by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) showed that boundary protection remains the...

Flaw in Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely
2018-01-16 08:33

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on BitTorrent users' computers and take...

Canadian Man Charged Over Leak of Three Billion Hacked Accounts
2018-01-16 03:29

An Ontario man made his first court appearance Monday to answer charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from some three billion accounts, and sold them for profit. read more

Spectre and Meltdown patches causing trouble as realistic attacks get closer
2018-01-15 21:05

Driver incompatibilities and microcode problems are both being reported.

Apple updates iOS security guide
2018-01-15 20:56

Apple has published an updated version of its iOS security guide, in which it details features introduced in iOS 11.2 (released on December 4, 2017) and iOS 11.1 (October 31, 2017). The company...

'Hacking Incident' Impacts Nearly 280,000 Medicaid Patients
2018-01-15 20:33

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Sends Notification LettersA health data breach reported to federal regulators as a "hacking/IT incident" impacting nearly 280,000 Medicaid...

Half Million Impacted by Four Malicious Chrome Extensions
2018-01-15 19:44

Four malicious Chrome extensions managed to infect over half a million users worldwide, including employees of major organizations, ICEBRG reports.   read more

OnePlus Site’s Payment System Reportedly Hacked to Steal Credit Card Details
2018-01-15 18:03

This year's first bad news for OnePlus users—a large number of OnePlus customers are reporting of fraudulent credit card transactions after buying products from the Chinese smartphone...

New KillDisk Variant Spotted in Latin America
2018-01-15 18:00

A new variant of the disk-wiper malware known as KillDisk has been spotted by Trend Micro researchers in attacks aimed at financial organizations in Latin America. read more

"PowerStager" Tool Employs Unique Obfuscation
2018-01-15 16:19

A malicious tool that has managed to fly under the radar since April 2017 is showing great focus on obfuscation, in an attempt to evade detection, Palo Alto Networks warns. read more