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Investigator Says Amazon Chief's Phone Hacked by Saudis
2019-03-31 23:54

The investigator hired to look into the release of intimate images of Jeff Bezos said Saturday he has concluded that Saudi Arabian authorities hacked the Amazon chief's phone to access his...

Accenture reports revenues of $10.5 billion
2019-03-31 23:00

Accenture reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2019, ended Feb. 28, 2019, with revenues of $10.5 billion, an increase of 5 percent in U.S. dollars and 9 percent in local...

Week in review: Employee cybersecurity essentials, ASUS attack, lessons learned from crypto hacks
2019-03-31 17:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Attackers compromised ASUS to deliver backdoored software updates Unknown attackers have compromised an update server...

Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs
2019-03-31 08:51

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published...

Medical Weed Dispensary Exposes Health Data for Thousands
2019-03-30 13:00

As to how the breach happened, the company is so far keeping details tightly rolled up.

Bithumb Hacked (Once Again), Hacker Stole $19 Million in Cryptocurrencies
2019-03-30 09:18

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb, the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan,...

Unpatched Zero-Days in Microsoft Edge and IE Browsers Disclosed Publicly
2019-03-30 07:33

A security researcher today publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploits for two 'unpatched' zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's web browsers after the company allegedly failed to...

Man Behind Fatal ‘Swatting’ Gets 20 Years
2019-03-29 22:19

Tyler Barriss, a 26-year-old California man who admitted making a phony emergency call to police in late 2017 that led to the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident, has been sentenced to...

Friday Squid Blogging: Restoring the Giant Squid at the Museum of Natural History
2019-03-29 21:15

It is traveling to Paris. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

Undocumented Intel VISA Tech Can Be Abused, Researchers Allege
2019-03-29 21:05

Researchers at Black Hat Asia said that Intel VISA, an undocumented testing tool, can be abused using previously-disclosed vulnerabilities.