Security News > 2019 > July

Three quarters of gamers suffer hate and harassment online
2019-07-29 12:08

Trolling, stalking, sexual harassment, and humiliation have become so bad that one in ten respondents had depressive or suicidal thoughts.

Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher
2019-07-29 12:00

Crooks fail to hijack infosec bloke's site to dress it up as a legit Euro bank login page Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an...

Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery
2019-07-29 11:15

Eli Sugarman of the Hewlettt Foundation laments about the sorry state of cybersecurity imagery: The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple Google Image search for the term...

Is homomorphic encryption ready to deliver confidential cloud computing to enterprises?
2019-07-29 10:41

The ability to keep data encrypted while you use it for computations in the cloud could protect data from attackers and malicious insiders alike. There is still a performance hit, but you can...

No Prison for British Cyber Expert in Malware Case
2019-07-29 10:16

A British cybersecurity expert who admitted writing and selling malware was spared prison Friday by a judge who said the misconduct was outweighed by his help in stopping a worldwide computer...

Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election, Senate report says
2019-07-29 09:57

The Senate Intelligence Committee doesn't know what Moscow's intentions are, but Robert Mueller says they're still at it.

Brit infosec firms urge PM Boris to reform the Computer Misuse Act
2019-07-29 09:00

Let us compete globally, say threat intel outfits A group of British infosec companies has written to UK prime minister Boris Johnson asking him to reform the Computer Misuse Act 1990, saying the...

NAB Apologizes After Breach of Personal Data
2019-07-29 08:48

Australian Bank Says Customer Data Sent to Two Service ProvidersNational Australia Bank says it is contacting 13,000 customers after personal account data was uploaded without authorization to two...

Viral FaceApp Unnecessarily Requests Access to Users' Facebook Friends List
2019-07-29 08:18

FaceApp—the AI-powered photo-morphing app that recently gone viral for its age filter but hit the headlines for its controversial privacy policy—has been found collecting the list of your Facebook...

Evolving to a Zero-Trust Architecture
2019-07-29 07:18

Taking a zero-trust approach can help organizations unshackle themselves from the password and drastically reduce the attack surface, says Akamai's Fernando Serto.