Security News > 2019 > May

New Zealand Says Budget Leak Was Bungled, Not Hacked
2019-05-30 09:30

A security breach that led to the premature release of New Zealand's budget resulted from an online bungle, not a sophisticated cyberattack as originally claimed, red-faced officials admitted...

G Suite to get Gmail confidential mode, on by default
2019-05-30 09:13

Earlier this year, Google introduced Gmail confidential mode for both consumer and G Suite users. While the former were able to use it immediately, the latter depended on whether their domain...

Chinese software nasty enslaves stadium-load of servers, puts them to work digging up digital dosh in crypto-mines
2019-05-30 09:04

Nanshou malware hijacked more than 50,000 MS-SQL boxes with rootkits More than 50,000 servers around the world have been infected with malware that installs crypto-coin-mining scripts and advanced...

Git your patches here! GitHub offers to brew automatic pull requests loaded with vuln fixes
2019-05-30 07:12

Your repo's dependencies need updating to close a hole? We're way ahead of you, pal GitHub can now automagically offer security patches for projects' third-party dependencies.…

A veteran’s look at the cybersecurity industry and the problems that need solving
2019-05-30 05:45

For many in the infosec industry, Daniel Miessler needs no introduction, as he’s a 20-year industry veteran, a professional that fulfilled a variety of security roles at companies like HP and...

Majority of CISOs plan to ask for an increase in cybersecurity investment
2019-05-30 05:30

Most CISOs of financial institutions (73 percent) plan to ask their organization’s CFO for an increase in cybersecurity investments in the next year, according to the Financial Services...

Security overconfidence and immaturity continue to endanger organizations
2019-05-30 05:15

The majority of organizations are ill-prepared to protect themselves against privileged access abuse, the leading cyber-attack vector, according to Centrify and Techvangelism. Seventy-nine percent...

New initiative aims to strengthen IoT security, interoperability and reliability
2019-05-30 05:00

The Zigbee Alliance publicly announced a major ongoing initiative to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The All Hubs Initiative is driven by a...

Businesses are struggling to implement adequate IAM and PAM processes, practices and technologies
2019-05-30 04:45

Businesses find identity and access management (IAM) and privileged access management (PAM) security disciplines difficult yet un-concerning. The results infer that IAM- and PAM-related security...

Many are seeing the damage of cybercrime and identity theft firsthand
2019-05-30 04:30

As massive data breaches continue to make international headlines and the Internet is an integral part of our daily lives, consumers are now grasping the risks they face. In a new F-Secure survey,...