Security News > 2019 > July

AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works
2019-07-02 12:18

Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's...

1 in 10 tech employees plan to steal company information before leaving a job
2019-07-02 12:16

Insider threats are more difficult to detect and prevent than external attacks, and are a major threat to businesses, according to Gurucul.

Google Releases Basic Homomorphic Encryption Tool
2019-07-02 11:24

Google has released an open-source cryptographic tool: Private Join and Compute. From a Wired article: Private Join and Compute uses a 1970s methodology known as "commutative encryption" to allow...

Scary Granny zombie game slurps credentials, spawns phishing attack
2019-07-02 11:12

Halloween came a little early for some Android users this year after a horror-themed computer game was found stealing their account credentials and displaying potentially malicious ads.

Dating app Jack’d fined $240K for leaving private photos up for a year
2019-07-02 10:33

The company behind the gay dating app left users' private photos online for a year in spite of knowing about the security bugs.

Medtronic rushes to replace insulin pumps after flaws found
2019-07-02 10:01

Medtronic is immediately recalling of all MiniMed 508 & Paradigm insulin pumps after researchers uncovered serious security flaws.

Relatives’ DNA in geneology database leads to murder conviction
2019-07-02 09:39

Privacy advocates may question the use of genealogy data in forensics, but defense attorneys in this case did not.

Android July 2019 Security Update Patches 33 New Vulnerabilities
2019-07-02 09:18

Google has started rolling out this month's security updates for its mobile operating system platform to address a total of 33 new security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices, 9 of which...

Firefox to Automatically Trust OS-Installed CA Certificates to Prevent TLS Errors
2019-07-02 07:48

Mozilla has finally introduced a mechanism to let Firefox browser automatically fix certain TLS errors, often triggered when antivirus software installed on a system tries to intercept secure...

Firefox Update to Address Antivirus TLS Errors
2019-07-02 05:57

Mozilla revealed on Monday that the upcoming Firefox 68 will address TLS issues caused by antiviruses by automatically making changes to the browser’s configuration when a man-in-the-middle (MitM)...