Security News > 2019 > April

2020 U.S. Presidential Candidates Vulnerable to Email Attacks
2019-04-30 14:56

A majority of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaigns are vulnerable to sophisticated email attacks as they have failed to implement DMARC and advanced security systems, according to a study...

Android users: watch out for this fake address bar trick
2019-04-30 14:38

When is an address bar not an address bar? When it's a fake.

Oh dear. Huawei enterprise router 'backdoor' was Telnet, sighs Vodafone
2019-04-30 14:37

We all want to see hard proof of espionage. This is absolutely not it A claimed "backdoor" in Huawei routers used in the core of Vodafone Italy's 3G network was, in fact, a routine implementation...

Why third-party providers pose a security risk to organizations
2019-04-30 13:29

A dependency on third-party cloud and hosting providers leaves businesses more vulnerable to potential cyber threats, according to RiskRecon and the Cyentia Institute.

Apple Claims Parental Control Apps Removed Due to Use of MDM
2019-04-30 12:55

Apple claims its recent decision to remove several parental control applications from the official App Store is related to these apps using what the company has described as “highly invasive”...

Securing edge devices – how to keep the crooks out of your network
2019-04-30 12:53

The Good Guys from the Cyber Threat Alliance just published a report to help you keep the Bad Guys out of your network

Russian Charged in $1.5 Million Cyber Tax Fraud Scheme
2019-04-30 12:18

Anton Bagdanov Allegedly Hacked Private Tax Preparation Firms to Steal DataRussian national Anton Bogdanov has been charged with stealing more than $1.5 million from the Internal Revenue Service...

Security Operations Firm Red Canary Raises $34 Million
2019-04-30 12:13

Denver, Co-based managed detection and response (MDR) firm Red Canary has raised $34 million in growth equity funding.  read more

To Reach SIEM's Promise, Take a Lesson From World War II
2019-04-30 12:04

With two of the largest public cloud providers having launched their cloud Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products and an inevitability that the remainder of the top 5 cloud...

Vodafone Identified Huawei Security Flaw Decade Ago
2019-04-30 12:01

British telecoms group Vodafone tackled a security flaw with Huawei technology a decade ago, it was revealed Tuesday amid widespread concerns over the Chinese giant developing 5G networks abroad. read more