Security News > 2019 > August
Apple today announced some major changes to its controversial 'Siri audio grading program' following criticism for employing humans to listen to audio recordings of users collected via its...
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) on Wednesday announced the prizes, rules and targets for Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019, which is set to take place on November 6-7 alongside the PacSec conference in...
In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2019, Shiva Mandalam, VP of Products, Visibility and Control at Qualys, talks about the importance of visibility. Whether on-prem...
Ad networks’ increasingly successful efforts to detect bot-based ad click fraud has forced attackers to focus more on intercepting and redirecting legitimate users’ clicks. How widespread is the...
McAfee Labs saw an average of 504 new threats per minute in Q1 2019, and a resurgence of ransomware along with changes in campaign execution and code. More than 2.2 billion stolen account...
Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts continue to face an overwhelming number of alerts each day that are taking longer to investigate, leading five times as many SOC analysts this year to...
Recovering from a corrupt Microsoft Exchange Server database or restoring a mailbox from an old Exchange database can be very tricky and, depending on the damage, an impossible task. The technical...
Small governments make up two-thirds of infections observed by infosec bods Ransomware criminals have taken a particular shine to US city and state governments, infecting them with file-scrambling...
New York Times: Database Used to Plot Attacks on Oil Tankers Wiped OutThe United States' June cyberattack against Iran wiped out a critical database used by the nation's paramilitary arm to plan...
Multiple actors in multiple campaigns are using the web shell for remote access, even though it's almost a decade old and hasn't been updated.