Security News

Emotet’s Thanksgiving Campaign Delivers New Recipes for Compromise
2018-11-21 16:19

The crafty malware has departed from its usual cornucopia of tactics and tricks.

Business Email Compromise: Must-Have Defenses
2018-11-02 19:18

David Stubley of 7 Elements Shares BEC Incident Response Lessons LearnedWant to better block business email compromise - CEO fraud - attacks outright, as well as be able to spot and respond more...

PoC Exploit Compromises Microsoft Live Accounts via Subdomain Hijacking
2018-11-01 15:44

Poor DNS housekeeping opens the door to account takeover.

AWS FreeRTOS Bugs Allow Compromise of IoT Devices
2018-10-19 15:24

The bugs let hackers crash IoT devices, leak their information, and completely take them over.

VestaCP users warned about possible server compromise
2018-10-19 11:03

Unknown attackers have compromised the official distribution of the VestaCP hosting control panel solution to harvest server IPs and admin credentials. That information was exploited to install...

Defending Against Business Email Compromise Attacks
2018-10-10 16:33

What can organizations do to thwart business email compromise attacks? In an interview, David Stubley, CEO of the consultancy 7 Elements, outlines several key steps. He'll be a featured speaker at...

Just Answering A Video Call Could Compromise Your WhatsApp Account
2018-10-10 07:33

What if just receiving a video call on WhatsApp could hack your smartphone? This sounds filmy, but Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich found a critical vulnerability in...

945 data breaches led to compromise of 4.5 billion data records in first half of 2018
2018-10-09 05:00

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide...

Malware on SHEIN Servers Compromises Data of 6.4M Customers
2018-09-25 19:33

A data breach targeting women's apparel giant SHEIN occurred between June and August 2018.

Business Email Compromises Fuel Procurement Fraud
2018-09-21 20:03

Allan Stojanovic of the University of Toronto on Fraud-Fighting ChallengesBusiness email compromises have been at the center of a number of procurement fraud scams, says Allan Stojanovic, a...