Security News > 2019 > February
Prof asks: What good comes from letting everyone know a vulnerability exists? A computer engineering professor has an interesting idea for how to handle the public disclosure of serious...
Hacks, Thefts and Business Associate Breaches Among the Incidents AddedSome 22 health data breaches reported to regulators in 2019 - including hacking incidents and thefts of unencrypted devices -...
Referencing the Dalai Lama, the spam campaign is targeting recipients of a mailing list run by the Central Tibetan Administration.
Remote scripting flaw in open-source productivity suites is at least partly fixed A security flaw affecting LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice has been fixed in one of the two open-source office...
Godaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But...
Recorded Future says that its security researchers were able to identify the hacker who first distributed the recently surfaced database of 773 million email addresses. read more
Dharma/CrySiS, GandCrab and Globelmposter Strains Most Prevalent, Study FindsRansomware victims who opted to pay for the promise of a decryption key forked over an average of $6,733 in the fourth...
The recent takedown of the xDedic marketplace—where threat actors had been buying and selling access to compromised remote desktop protocol (RDP) servers since at least 2016 and that, according to...
Hackers can talk to and locate the wearer, warns notice The European Commission has ordered the recall of a smartwatch aimed at kids that allows miscreants to pinpoint the wearer's location,...
The Wired headline sums it up nicely -- "Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics": In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and...