Security News > 2019 > May

Eggheads confirm: Rampant Android bloatware a privacy and security hellscape
2019-05-09 07:05

Bundled software not just an annoyance, it's also a risk The apps bundled with many Android phones are presenting threats to security and privacy greater than most users think.…

How to work with Protected View in Microsoft Office
2019-05-09 06:43

Microsoft's Protected View feature tries to protect you against potentially malicious files and documents. Here's how to use it.

Securing satellites: The new space race
2019-05-09 06:30

A decade ago, it would have cost you a billion dollars to deploy a satellite into space. Fast forward ten years and you can now have your own personal satellite floating in orbit for around...

Information Services Giant Wolters Kluwer Hit by Malware Attack
2019-05-09 05:46

Global information services giant Wolters Kluwer has taken many of its applications and platforms offline after discovering malware on its systems. The Netherlands-based company started seeing...

C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches
2019-05-09 05:30

C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report....

3 months, 1900 reported breaches, 1.9 billion records exposed
2019-05-09 05:15

There were 1,903 publicly disclosed data compromise events in the first three months of the year, exposing over 1.9 billion records, according to Risk Based Security. No other first quarter has...

The IoT threat landscape is expanding rapidly, yet few companies are addressing third party risk factors
2019-05-09 05:00

There is a dramatic increase in IoT-related data breaches specifically due to an unsecured IoT device or application since 2017 – from 15 percent to 26 percent – and the results might actually be...

Whose (usage) data is it, anyway?
2019-05-09 04:45

Around the world, business customers now demand business-to-business (B2B) SaaS companies safeguard their usage data. More importantly, they want to know how SaaS companies use that type of data....

How institutions, advisors, and investors think about digital assets
2019-05-09 04:30

Institutional investors are finding appeal in digital assets and many are looking to invest more in digital assets over the next five years, according to new research from Fidelity Investments....

Red Hat unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to span the breadth of deployments across enterprise IT
2019-05-09 03:30

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the operating system designed to span the breadth of deployments...