Security News > 2019 > February
A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users' data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*
The Dow Jones Watchlist, a dataset of 4.4 Gigabytes, was found exposed in an unprotected Elasticsearch database on an AWS server. The Watchlist is used by many of the world's largest organizations...
Researchers Say Connecting to USB 3 Devices Could Lead to Data TheftWindows, MacOS and Linux operating systems don't sufficiently protect memory, making it possible for a fake network card to...
The US blocked internet access to Russian trolls who, they say, were trying to spread FUD.
RSA Conference 2019 (RSAC) is just a few days away and the theme this year is “Better”. Better solutions and better connections for a better, safer world. Last year, more than 600 exhibitors...
Hyperconnected Digital Environments Are Raising the Stakes for Security Teams Even Higher read more
After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1,400 private entities, including...
Attackers continue to use phishing as a preferred attack method, but have been forced to adapt their approach as anti-phishing tools and techniques are becoming more sophisticated. The phishing...
Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker...
Cisco has released security fixes for several models of wireless VPN firewalls and routers, plugging a remote code execution flaw (CVE-2019-1663) that can be triggered via a malicious HTTP...