Security News > 2019 > May

Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13% A $1.2m shipment of livestock feed went awry when "hackers" intercepted and tweaked emails with payment details, eventually costing the cheeky...

The decision to pay a ransom in the case of a ransomware attack can be a complex one for businesses.

The number of hacktivist attacks that resulted in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 percent since 2015, according to IBM. read more

The importance of reading the network tealeaves of a company’s network traffic to head off an attack.

Talos’ security researchers have discovered two security flaws in the Wacom update helper that could be exploited to elevate privileges on a vulnerable system.

A recently patched vulnerability in the Slack desktop application for Windows can be exploited by malicious actors to steal and manipulate a targeted user’s downloaded files. read more

We read this week's Huawei happenings and filleted it so you don't have to Roundup Huawei has been kicked by a US national emergency proclamation hitting "foreign" gear, spent some cash in France,...

There have been some major security breaches in recent years, according to a recent Bitglass report, and those breaches have cost companies billions of dollars along the way.

Fix WhatsApp, Windows, Cisco and CPUs From Intel - Pending Patch AvailabilityMultiple flaws - all serious, exploitable and some already being actively exploited - came to light this week. Big...

Tenable this week announced Nessus Essentials, an expanded version of its free vulnerability assessment solution previously known as Nessus Home.  read more