Security News > 2019 > February

No-Deal Brexit Threatens British Crime-Fighting
2019-02-12 12:18

Police Say Data-Sharing Alternatives 'Will Not Be As Efficient Or Effective'British police say they're doing their best to cope with the possibility that the U.K. will crash out of the EU in 45...

First they came for Equifax and we did nothing because America. Now they are coming for back-end systems and we're...
2019-02-12 12:03

Imag-I-Nation Technologies (no, not that one) fesses up to breach affecting thousands A company that develops and supports software for consumer reports and background checks has admitted to...

Russian ISPs plan internet disconnection test for entire country
2019-02-12 11:58

Russia’s major ISPs plan to temporarily disconnect servers from the internet, effectively cutting the country off from the outside world.

Apple sued for ‘forcing’ 2FA on accounts
2019-02-12 11:57

Time is money, baby: Jay Brodsky claims that Apple's 2FA "intermeddling" takes minutes out of his day, causing "economic loss."

Who’s Responsible for Your Cyber-Security?
2019-02-12 11:56

Cyber security is everybody’s responsibility – make sure that staff have the tools, and the knowledge, to do it properly.

RunC container escape flaw enables root access to host system
2019-02-12 11:47

A serious vulnerability in runC, a widely used CLI tool for spawning and running containers, could be exploited to compromise the runC host binary from inside a privileged runC container, allowing...

Kids as young as eight falling victim to online predators
2019-02-12 11:42

A UK children's charity has found that children as young as eight are being sexually exploited online via social media.

Brave browser explains Facebook whitelist to concerned users
2019-02-12 11:16

Brave is playing down fears after the revelation of what looked like a whitelist in its code allowing it to communicate with Facebook.

Facebook defends gun-law loophole firm as “political advertisers”
2019-02-12 11:06

Concealed Online, the third biggest "political advertiser" on Facebook, touts the Virginia loophole, granting concealed weapons permits.

Major Flaw in Runc Poses Mass Container Takeover Risk
2019-02-12 10:48

Attackers Could 'Break Out' via Runc Flaw to Compromise All Containers on HostRed Hat, Amazon and Google have issued fixes for a serious container vulnerability. The flaw in the "runc"...