Security News > 2019 > January

Neiman Marcus Settles Lawsuit Over Payment Card Breach
2019-01-10 10:48

Agreement With 43 States Requires Retailer to Use Encryption, TokenizationForty-three states have reached a settlement with Neiman Marcus over its 2013 data breach, one of several breaches from...

Cisco fixes serious DoS flaws in its email security appliances
2019-01-10 10:09

Cisco has plugged a heap of security holes in many of its products, including two vulnerabilities (one critical) that open its email security appliances to denial of service attacks. About the...

Before you slink off to the pub, be sure to patch these 19 serious vulns in Juniper Networks kit
2019-01-10 09:45

Happy New Year from the Gin Palace Juniper Networks has had its first big bug day in months, with 19 patches announced covering everything from third-party package catchups to critical errors in...

Iran-Linked DNS Hijacking Attacks Target Organizations Worldwide
2019-01-10 09:24

A DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various sectors around the world may be the work of the Iranian government, FireEye reported on Wednesday. read more

Google DNS Service (8.8.8.8) Now Supports DNS-over-TLS Security
2019-01-10 08:48

Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet's directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you...

Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker
2019-01-10 07:18

Remember "The Shadow Brokers" and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency? It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab,...

Understanding how data becomes intelligence is central for any successful security program
2019-01-10 07:00

Threat intelligence is one of the hottest terms in information security at the moment. But, as with so many buzzwords, it is often overused and misused. All the buzz has created a lot of...

The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit
2019-01-10 06:57

Patches pending for distros to deal with threat of local privilege escalation to root Security biz Qualys has revealed three vulnerabilities in a component of systemd, a system and service manager...

GDPR: Five tips for organizations to remain compliant
2019-01-10 06:45

For the majority of UK businesses, a huge amount of time and resource was invested to become GDPR compliant in time for the May 2018 deadline. The cost of implementing GDPR was substantial, with a...

Email security predictions: What we can expect in 2019
2019-01-10 06:30

2018 shed a lot of light on how expensive successful phishing attacks can be, with the FBI reporting in July well over $12B in financial losses due to business email compromise and Anthem reaching...