Security News > 2019 > May

Arm suspends cooperation with Huawei, endangering mobile and server business
2019-05-22 13:40

UK-based Arm Holdings has issued a memo to staff indicating it must stop working with Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei, following a US trade dispute.

Hunters.AI Emerges From Stealth With $5.4M in Seed Funding
2019-05-22 13:25

Hunters.AI, an Israel-based company specializing in autonomous threat hunting, on Wednesday emerged from stealth mode and announced that it raised $5.4 million in seed funding from YL Ventures and...

Google Stored G Suite Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
2019-05-22 13:16

Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.

EU Adopts Powers to Respond to Cyberattacks
2019-05-22 12:19

The European Union on Friday adopted powers to punish those outside the bloc who launch cyberattacks that cripple hospitals and banks, sway elections and steal company secrets or funds. read more

Fingerprinting iPhones
2019-05-22 11:24

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of...

Cache of 49 million Instagram records found online
2019-05-22 11:12

A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data on millions of Instagram influencers, publicly accessible for everyone to see.

Some Androids don’t call 911 when you tell them to call an ambulance
2019-05-22 10:52

Sometimes you get a list of ambulance companies, sometimes a blog post on when it's OK to call an ambulance.

Don’t break Windows 10 by deleting SID, Microsoft warns
2019-05-22 10:44

Sometimes it's best not to tinker under the hood - especially when it comes to security IDs.

Official Tor Browser for Android available on Google Play
2019-05-22 10:43

The Tor Project has released the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android. The release is referred to as version 8.5, mainly to prevent confusion: Tor Browser releases for Windows,...

Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows
2019-05-22 09:48

Google & UC-San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets.