Security News > 2019 > August

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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