Security News > 2019 > May

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in UK Jail
2019-05-01 12:48

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks—for almost a year—in prison by a London court for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy...

'Privacy-Focused' Facebook Puts the Spotlight on Groups
2019-05-01 11:49

Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled...

On Security Tokens
2019-05-01 11:14

Mark Risher of Google extols the virtues of security keys: I'll say it again for the people in the back: with Security Keys, instead of the *user* needing to verify the site, the *site* has to...

Citrix Hackers Camped in Tech Giant's Network for 6 Months
2019-05-01 11:03

FBI Tipoff Led to Discovery; Citrix Blames Poor Password SecurityCitrix says the data breach it first disclosed in early March appears to have persisted for six months before being discovered and...

Keeping your data safe when traveling
2019-05-01 11:00

Our data is especially vulnerable when we ourselves are too: at border crossings and when in unfamiliar environments.

Millions of consumer smart devices exposed by serious security flaw
2019-05-01 10:56

This IoT software flaw could render millions of consumer devices, including baby monitors and webcams, open to remote discovery and hijack.

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks over Ecuador embassy bail-jumping
2019-05-01 10:56

And that's just the start of his legal woes Former WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been sentenced to 11 months in prison after jumping bail and fleeing into Ecuador's London embassy for...

Diabetics are hunting down obsolete insulin pumps with a security flaw
2019-05-01 10:38

The flaw makes it possible to overwrite the devices' programming and insert an algorithm that turns them into artificial pancreases.

Mystery database exposes data on 80 million US households
2019-05-01 10:13

Put on your detective hat - the researchers who found it say it's full of people's data, but not who it belongs to.

NordVPN rapped by ad watchdog over insecure public Wi-Fi claims
2019-05-01 10:05

There's insecure and then there's insecure NordVPN has been told to stop misleading world+dog with claims in telly ads that public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure.…