Security News > 2018

Serious Flaws Affect Dell EMC, VMware Data Protection Products
2018-01-08 11:26

Data protection products from both Dell EMC and VMware are impacted by three potentially serious vulnerabilities discovered by researchers at Digital Defense. read more

Phishing Exposed Medicaid Details for 30,000 Floridians
2018-01-08 11:18

No Misuse of Exposed Data Has Been Reported - YetPersonal details for 30,000 Medicaid recipients in Florida may have been exposed after a government employee fell victim to a phishing attack,...

Qualcomm Working on Mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown
2018-01-08 08:36

Qualcomm has confirmed that some of its products are affected by the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, but the company says mitigations are being deployed. read more

Week in review: Meltdown, Spectre, online tracking, and cryptojacking
2018-01-08 04:24

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs A design flaw in most moder processors can be...

Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges
2018-01-08 04:21

Mitigating Spectre and Meltdown flaws won't be easy, but experts say exploits targeting Spectre will be hard to patch against.

NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty in Embarrassing Leak Case
2018-01-07 15:47

A former contractor for the US National Security Agency's elite hacking group has agreed to plead guilty to removing classified documents in a case that highlighted a series of disastrous leaks of...

US National Security Agency Chief to Retire
2018-01-07 15:41

National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers, the US signals intelligence czar, plans to retire within months after a four-year term scarred by damaging leaks, US intelligence sources...

ZeuS Variant Abuses Legitimate Developer’s Website
2018-01-07 15:21

The official website of Ukraine-based accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM) was abused for the distribution of a variant of the ZeuS banking Trojan, Talos reports. read more

Hackers Already Targeting Pyeongchang Olympics: Researchers
2018-01-06 21:47

Hackers have already begun targeting the Pyeongchang Olympic Games with malware-infected emails which may be aimed at stealing passwords or financial information, researchers said Saturday. read more

Friday Squid Blogging: How the Optic Lobe Controls Squid Camouflage
2018-01-05 22:42

Experiments on the oval squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....