Security News > 2019 > April

3.1 million customer records possibly stolen in Toyota hack
2019-04-01 09:44

Personal information of some 3.1 million Toyota customers may have been leaked outside the company, the Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced on Friday. The announcement comes a few weeks after...

Buca di Beppo, Planet Hollywood Restaurants Hit by Card Breach
2019-04-01 06:28

Earl Enterprises on Friday admitted that cybercriminals had stolen payment card data from tens of the restaurants it owns over a period of 10 months. read more

VMware emits security alerts, Planet Hollywood chain hacked, SWAT death caller gets 20 years in clink, and more
2019-04-01 06:03

A quick summary of infosec news to start your week Roundup Last week we saw someone admit hoarding NSA documents, a Huawei patch bungle, and an axe looming for DXC security employees.…

How to Marie Kondo your data
2019-04-01 05:55

By now you’ve heard about Marie Kondo, the author of New York Times bestseller, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and star of Tidying Up, the new Netflix show that puts her principles of...

Nearly all consumers are backing up their computers, but data loss is here to stay
2019-04-01 05:45

65.1 percent of consumers or their family member lost data as a result of an accidental deletion, hardware failure or software problem – a jump of 29.4 percentage points from last year. Yet for...

Main threat source to industrial computers? Mass-distributed malware
2019-04-01 05:30

Malicious cyber activities on Industrial Control System (ICS) computers are considered an extremely dangerous threat as they could potentially cause material losses and production downtime in the...

0-Day in TP-Link SR20 Routers Allows Command Execution
2019-04-01 05:29

An unpatched vulnerability in the TP-Link SR20 smart hub and router can be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution, a security researcher has discovered.  read more

Organizations investing in security analytics and machine learning to tackle cyberthreats
2019-04-01 05:15

IT security’s greatest inhibitor to success is contending with too much security data. To address this challenge, 47 percent of IT security professionals acknowledged their organization’s intent...

Security and privacy still the top inhibitors of cloud adoption
2019-04-01 05:00

Cloud adoption is gaining momentum, as 36 percent of organizations are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud while close to 20 percent consider themselves to be in the advanced stages...

Automatically and invisibly encrypt email as soon as it is received on any trusted device
2019-04-01 04:45

While an empty email inbox is something many people strive for, most of us are not successful. And that means that we probably have stored away hundreds, even thousands, of emails that contain all...