Security News

Criminals can compromise company networks by sending malicious faxes
2018-08-13 12:37

Check Point has revealed details about the two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-5924, CVE-2018-5925) it discovered in the communication protocols used in tens of millions...

Nearly 15% of US security budgets go to remediating active compromises
2018-08-08 17:43

Malwarebytes and Osterman Research have polled 900 senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals in Australia, Germany, the US, UK, and Singapore about the impact of enterprise security...

ThreatList: Business Email Compromises Way Up for Q2
2018-07-31 19:20

Hardest hit were organizations using Office 365, with incidents costing more than $2 million each.

Google hasn’t suffered an employee phishing compromise in over a year
2018-07-24 11:07

Phishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made...

FBI: Global Business Email Compromise Losses Hit $12.5 Billion
2018-07-16 11:03

'CEO Fraud' Remains Alive, Well and UnderreportedKnown losses due to business email compromise have exceeded $12.5 billion worldwide, the FBI's Internet Complaint Center reports, adding that...

Hacker Compromises Air Force Captain to Steal Sensitive Drone Info
2018-07-12 20:04

The thief also had a second dataset, including the M1 Abrams maintenance manual, a tank platoon training course, a crew survival course and documentation on improvised explosive device (IED)...

Researchers Create Attacks That Compromise LTE Data Communication
2018-07-02 12:52

Newly devised attacks on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) high-speed wireless standard break the confidentiality and privacy of communication, team of researchers claim.  read more

FBI arrests 74 in global Business Email Compromise takedown
2018-06-13 13:46

After years of laughing in the face of victims BEC scammers have taken one on the chin.

Dixons Carphone 'fesses to mega-breach: Probes 'attempt to compromise' 5.9m payment cards
2018-06-13 09:38

Over a million records containing 'personal data' also affected Retailer Dixons Carphone has gone public about a hack attack involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records.…

74 Arrests in Business Email Compromise Takedown
2018-06-11 19:48

'Operation Wire Wire' a Six-Month, Worldwide Law Enforcement OperationA six-month coordinated global law enforcement effort to crack down on business email compromise schemes has resulted in 74...