Security News > 2019 > November

Google caught a Russian state hacker crew uploading badness to the Play Store
2019-11-28 13:41

Adtech firm also sent 12k phishing warnings to users of its services Google has said it fired off 12,000 warnings to unlucky users of its GMail, Drive and YouTube services telling them that...

ThreatList: Healthcare Breaches Spike in October
2019-11-28 13:00

38 million consumer health records have been exposed so far in 2019.

Kids’ smartwatch security tracker can be hacked by anyone
2019-11-28 11:32

For researchers at testing outfit AV-Test, the SMA M2 kids’ smartwatch is just the tip of an iceberg of terrible security.

Ransomware attack freezes health records access at 110 nursing homes
2019-11-28 11:25

In some cases, nurses can’t update and order drugs. For one assisted-living facility, lack of timely Medicaid billing could force closure.

HPE warns of impending SSD disk doom
2019-11-28 11:16

The company has revealed that many of its SSDs are set to permanently fail by default after 32,768 hours of operation.

Twitter says it won’t delete tweets from those who have died
2019-11-28 11:11

It "was a miss on our part", Twitter said.

Cybersecurity in 2020: More targeted attacks, AI not a prevention panacea
2019-11-28 11:00

As cloud complexity increases, hackers are relying on more targeted attacks, scoping out weak points across a larger attack surface.

Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach, Adobe Warns
2019-11-28 10:33

E-Commerce Platform User Data Exposed Exploited; Vulnerability Now FixedAdobe says its e-commerce Magento Marketplace has been breached, exposing usernames, email addresses and more. The software...