Security News > 2018
Cryptojacking makes surfing the web similar to walking through a minefield: you never know when you might land on a booby-trapped site. Stealthy cryptocurrency mining scripts have found their way...
Researchers discovered that many online services designed for managing location tracking devices are affected by vulnerabilities that expose potentially sensitive information. Fitness, child, pet...
VMware released three patches fixing critical vulnerabilities affecting its vSphere cloud computing virtualization platform.
From worsening ransomware attacks to deepened concerns about external digital risk, former AT&T CISO Ed Amoroso says 2018 will be a challenging year, and security teams need to be building out...
Testing Networks With WannaCry, Petya and EternalRocks Finds Widespread FailuresSimulated attacks by an information security testing firm have found that fresh WannaCry, NotPetya and EternalRocks...
A vulnerability found in Internet-connected Sonos Play:1 speakers can be abused to access information on users, Trend Micro has discovered. read more
The popularity of passwords as a means of authentication is still not waning, so advice on how to opt for passwords that are hard to guess and crack is always timely. Choosing passwords For one,...
Fashion retailer updates disclosure on 2017 attack, says hackers targeted point-of-sale terminals that used no encryption.
The Necurs botnet started 2017 with a four-month vacation, but ended the year sending tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware distribution campaigns. read more
A critical security vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL database—which could allow remote attackers to perform dangerous...