Security News > 2019 > February

Keeping Incident Response Plans Current
2019-02-12 17:48

Many healthcare organizations are falling short in their incident response plans, says Mark Dill, principal consultant at tw-Security. The former director of information security at the Cleveland...

Adobe Releases February 2019 Patch Updates For 75 Vulnerabilities
2019-02-12 17:33

Welcome back! Adobe has today released its monthly security updates to address a total of 75 security vulnerabilities across its various products, 71 of which resides in Adobe Acrobat and Reader...

Have tech companies taken two-factor authentication too far?
2019-02-12 17:33

Apple is facing a lawsuit from a user claiming that two-factor authentication is a "waste of their personal time." Here's why businesses shouldn't ignore the security measure.

Symantec Acquires Zero Trust Cloud Security Startup Luminate Security
2019-02-12 17:31

Symantec announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Luminate Security, an Israel-based company that specializes in securing access to corporate applications in hybrid cloud environments.  read more

Application Security Firm ShiftLeft Raises $20 Million
2019-02-12 17:04

Application security firm ShiftLeft on Tuesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to nearly $30 million. The funding...

Medical Device Cyber Risk: An Enterprise Problem
2019-02-12 16:48

Medical device cybersecurity risks should be viewed as an enterprise problem, say Tracey Hughes of Duke University Health Systems and Clyde Hewitt of security consultancy CynergisTek, who outline...

Adobe Patches Disclosed Data Leakage Flaw in Reader
2019-02-12 15:20

Adobe on Tuesday released patches for Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player, ColdFusion and Creative Cloud. One of the Reader flaws is a critical data leakage issue whose details were made public by a...

Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws
2019-02-12 15:09

Overall, Adobe patched 75 important and critical vulnerabilities - including a flaw that could allow bad actors to steal victims’ hashed password values.

Hackers hit VFEmail, wipe US servers and backups
2019-02-12 15:06

Unknown attackers have breached the servers of VFEmail and have wiped disks on every one of its US-based servers, the email provider has confirmed. At this time, the attacker has formatted all the...