Security News > 2019 > May

Directive: 'Critical' Vulnerabilities Must Be Patched Within 15 DaysThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security is requiring that federal agencies speed up patching and remediating "critical" and...

The United States this week indicted a Russian national for obtaining over $1.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. read more

Cisco has released patches for tens of vulnerabilities in its products, including a Critical flaw impacting Nexus 9000 switches. Tracked as CVE-2019-1804 and featuring a CVSS score of 9.8, the...

Phishers tend to focus on business during the week, social media and finance on the weekend, according to a Vade Secure report.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... we really ought to get around to picking proper passwords for everything - and here's why!

Organizations are not prepared to handle cyber breaches due to gaps in IT security and basic operations, according to a 1E survey.

Two exploits publicly released in late April at the OPCDE security conference in Dubai could be leveraged to compromise a great number of SAP implementations, Onapsis has warned. A successful...

Account takeovers are one of the fastest-growing email security threats hitting Office 365 accounts, according to Barracuda.

Cause for Celebration: Microsoft Stops Recommending Periodic Password ChangesEvery day needs to be password security day - attackers certainly aren't dormant the other 364 days of the year. But as...

Nik Cubrilovic Must Pay GoGet, Do Community ServiceAn Australian security researcher who pleaded guilty to several charges related to probing the network of popular car-sharing service GoGet has...