Security News > 2019 > May

Siemens LOGO!, a PLC for small automation projects, open to attack
2019-05-31 05:45

LOGO!, a programmable logic controller (PLC) manufactured by Siemens, sports three vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to reconfigure the device, access project files, decrypt files,...

Researchers fight ransomware attacks by leveraging properties of flash-based storage
2019-05-31 05:30

Ransomware continues to pose a serious threat to organizations of all sizes. In a new paper, “Project Almanac: A Time-Traveling Solid State Drive,” University of Illinois students Chance Coats and...

New infosec products of the week: May 31, 2019
2019-05-31 05:15

SailPoint Predictive Identity platform: The future of identity governance SailPoint unveiled the SailPoint Predictive Identity platform, the intelligent cloud identity platform of the future that...

What mechanisms can help address today’s biggest cybersecurity challenges?
2019-05-31 05:00

In this Help Net Security podcast, Syed Abdur Rahman, Director of Products with unified risk management provider Brinqa, talks about their risk centric knowledge-driven approach to cybersecurity...

Researchers spot manipulated photos and video using AI-driven imaging system
2019-05-31 04:45

To thwart sophisticated methods of altering photos and video, researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have demonstrated an experimental technique to authenticate images throughout the...

Amazon Digital Assistant Alexa Gets New Skill: Amnesia
2019-05-31 04:22

Amazon on Wednesday added the ability to tell its Alexa digital assistant to forget what it has heard in a move that could assuage concerns about Echo devices remembering conversations. The...

StorageCraft ShadowXafe protects all data for midsize companies and MSPs irrespective of its source
2019-05-31 02:00

StorageCraft, whose mission is to protect all data and ensure its constant availability, announced a powerful upgrade and expansion of its flagship product, StorageCraft ShadowXafe. The solution...

Cymulate launches new Advanced Persistent Threat simulation
2019-05-31 01:30

Cymulate, the most comprehensive, on-demand SaaS-based Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) platform, launched its new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) simulation. The new simulation vector enables...

HiveIO delivers data center intelligence with Hive Fabric 7.3
2019-05-31 00:30

HiveIO, a company that transforms commodity data center equipment into an intelligent virtualization platform, released version 7.3 of Hive Fabric, an Artificial Intelligence-ready fabric solution...

Ricoh searches terabytes of global IT logs in real time with Elasticsearch
2019-05-31 00:00

Ricoh is operationalizing the Elastic Stack to visualize and monitor two terabytes of logging data a day to watch for and react quickly to security threats across its global IT infrastructure....