Security News > 2019 > January

Data transfer tools caught not checking what exactly they're downloading A decades-old oversight in the design of Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) tools can be exploited by malicious servers to...

Vesta has launched three payment solutions – Guaranteed Payments, Guaranteed Gateway and Guaranteed Acquiring – that enable e-commerce companies to grow their business by focusing on revenue...

Executives held to account? And three underlings thanked for their work? What is this madness? The Singaporean government-owned biz responsible for that country's patient database has fined senior...

Judge rules compelled use of biometrics runs into Fifth Amendment protections A US judge last week denied police a warrant to unlock a number of devices using biometrics identifiers like...

He said that similar flaws were also found in the Dreamhost, HostGator, OVH and iPage web hosting platforms.

Chipzilla adds to IT admins security update load While admins were busy wrangling with the mass of security patches from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP last week, Intel slipped out a fix for a...

We asked a number of people working in different roles at Sophos how they made their way into cybersecurity. 1. Music making to malware fighting Sales Engineer, Benedict Jones I graduated from...

Punishment Includes Terminations, Demotions and 'Financial Penalties'The organization that manages IT for Singapore's public healthcare sector says it has terminated, demoted or financially...

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Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On...