Security News > 2019 > August

GAO Blasts Cybersecurity Efforts of Federal Agencies
2019-08-02 13:18

Watchdog Points to Numerous Risk Management ShortcomingsSome 23 federal agencies come up short in their cybersecurity efforts even as attacks on their IT infrastructures continue to grow and...

Unprotected Database Exposes Details of Honda's Internal Network
2019-08-02 13:01

An unprotected, internet accessible ElasticSearch database exposed 134 million rows of sensitive data from Honda Motor Company, containing technical details on employee computers, including its...

Convince your users to obey the cybersecurity rules: Tune in live online and find out how
2019-08-02 13:00

Our panel is here to help you cut through the thickets of indifference Webcast Security professionals like you have a tough job. You can bang on about risks, threats, attack types and other scary...

Space agency uses Raspberry Pi to solve satellite encryption puzzle
2019-08-02 11:57

The European Space Agency thinks it's found a much cheaper way to control a small module - and it's built around a tiny Raspberry Pi Zero board.

4 million Club Penguin Rewritten accounts exposed in breach
2019-08-02 11:57

The hugely popular gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten suffered a serious data breach.

Club Penguin Rewritten breach caused by rogue admin backdoor
2019-08-02 11:57

The hugely popular gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten suffered a data breach that exposed 4m user accounts.

Anime filter glitches, exposing face of one extremely smart vlogger
2019-08-02 11:39

Pretending to be a hot young thing brought in beaucoup bucks. Last laugh department: "world's best granny" now has more followers than ever.

Facebook is working on mind-reading
2019-08-02 11:39

The completely non-evil-genius goal: a wearable, noninvasive device that could translate thoughts into text, for the speech impaired or VR.

How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
2019-08-02 11:04

Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have...

Congress Wants Capital One, Amazon to Explain Data Breach
2019-08-02 10:17

Leaders of House and Senate committees want Capital One and Amazon to explain to Congress how a hacker accessed personal information from more than 100 million Capital One credit card customers...