Security News > 2019 > August

JIRA Misconfiguration Leaks Data of Fortune 500 Companies
2019-08-05 15:59

A misconfiguration in the popular JIRA project management software exposed a great deal of data on hundreds of companies, security researcher Avinash Jain reveals. read more

Connected Cars Could be a Threat to National Security, Group Claims
2019-08-05 15:44

Attack on Connected Cars Could Could Kill Thousands, Advocacy Group Claims read more

Organizations Lack Confidence in Securing IoT, Survey Shows
2019-08-05 15:17

Less than a fifth of professionals who responded to a recent poll say they are very confident in their ability to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices.  read more

Google and ARM Tackle Android Bugs with Memory-Tagging
2019-08-05 14:49

Buffer overflows, race conditions, use-after-free and more account for more than half of all vulnerabilities in the Android platform.

Google, ARM Boost Android Security With Memory Tagging Extension
2019-08-05 14:26

In an effort to mitigate memory safety vulnerabilities in Android, Google and chipmaker ARM have released a new hardware feature called memory tagging extension (MTE).  read more

Google and Apple suspend contractor access to voice recordings
2019-08-05 14:20

Apple and Google have announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors.

Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers
2019-08-05 14:18

Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called...

Regulating International Trade in Commercial Spyware
2019-08-05 14:14

Siena Anstis, Ronald J. Deibert, John Scott-Railton of Citizen Lab published an editorial calling for regulating the international trade in commercial surveillance systems until we can figure out...

The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords
2019-08-05 14:04

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there's a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves -- even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of...

FileZilla fixes show how far we’ve come since Heartbleed
2019-08-05 13:59

What have seven security fixes in FileZilla got to do with 2014's Heartbleed bug?