Security News > 2019 > February

Don't Let Huawei Help Set Up 5G, US Warns EU Nations
2019-02-06 02:53

US officials are fanning out across Europe to warn about the security risks of allowing Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to help build 5G mobile networks, a US diplomat said Tuesday. read more

I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt
2019-02-05 23:56

It's 2019. Should billion-dollar corps do better than offer swag for vulns? Analysis Hunting for exploitable security bugs in software is not an easy way to make a living, and vulnerability...

SOC-as-a-Service for Financial Institutions
2019-02-05 22:18

Beyond managed security services...With such a wide breadth of responsibility, how can small and mid-sized financial institutions counter sophisticated cyberthreats, provide monitoring and...

IoT Scale Flaws Enable Denial of Service, Privacy Issues
2019-02-05 22:09

Flaws in this connected smart scale might give the diet-challenged a legitimate reason to be nervous.

Maximize Cybersecurity Risk Ratings in 2019
2019-02-05 21:48

Insights from the Forrester New Wave: Cybersecurity Risk Rating Solutions, Q4 2018.If you are a security or risk leader, you know that even with a formal third-party risk program in place, you are...

Google: All your leaked passwords are belong to us – here's a Chrome extension to find them
2019-02-05 21:38

And I'm OK with this, says chief of HaveIBeenPwned During its incessant web crawling, Google's search engine constantly encounters credentials dumped by hackers or left exposed by the careless....

Settlement Reached in Community Health Systems Breach Suit
2019-02-05 21:18

Under Proposal, Those Affected Would Be Eligible to Receive PaymentsA $3.1 million proposed settlement has been reached in a data breach class action lawsuit against Community Health Systems...

Major Zcash Vulnerability Fixed
2019-02-05 20:59

Zcash just fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed "infinite counterfeit" Zcash. Like all the other blockchain vulnerabilities and updates, this demonstrates the ridiculousness of the notion...

Flaws in Popular RDP Clients Allow Malicious Servers to Reverse Hack PCs
2019-02-05 20:18

You've always been warned not to share remote access to your computer with any untrusted people for many reasons—it's basic cyber security advice, and common sense, right? But what if I say, you...

Google's New Tool Alerts When You Use Compromised Credentials On Any Site
2019-02-05 18:48

With so many data breaches happening almost every week, it has become difficult for users to know if their credentials are already in possession of hackers or being circulated freely across the...