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...

Criminal justice software code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do about it
2018-08-13 10:50

Trade secrets are trumping personal liberty DEF CON American police and the judiciary are increasingly relying on software to catch, prosecute and sentence criminal suspects, but the code is...

Honeypot Highlights Danger to ICS Systems From Criminal Hackers
2018-08-07 13:40

A security firm established a sophisticated honeypot masquerading as a power transmission substation for a major electricity provider. The purpose was to attract attackers and analyze how they...

Amazon AI misidentifies Congress as criminals, proves it's not ready for enterprise
2018-07-27 14:16

Amazon's face recognition falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. Perhaps AI isn't quite ready for business.

Criminal Cyberattacks Are Up. Can Automated Security Help Bring Them Down?
2018-07-26 17:26

Companies that still rely on manual processes – security tools that require frequent tuning or manual CVE patching, for example – fare worse if they are breached.

ERP applications under attack: How criminals target the crown jewels
2018-07-26 11:45

Business-critical applications running the biggest organizations in the world are under attack, according to research from Digital Shadows and Onapsis. The report shows a rise in cyberattacks on...

Criminal mastermind injects malicious script into Ethereum tracker. Their message? '1337'
2018-07-25 10:56

Etherscan XSS snafu could have been much, much worse Ethereum-tracking website Etherscan has resolved a cross-site scripting issue on its domain.…

Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining
2018-07-06 19:33

The Rakhni Trojan is now giving bad actors the ability to infect victims either with a ransomware cryptor or a miner.

Former Insider Indicted for Criminal HIPAA Violations
2018-07-03 20:33

Latest Rare Example of Prosecutors Pursuing a HIPAA CaseA federal grand jury in Pennsylvania has indicted a former patient coordinator on several counts of wrongfully obtaining and disclosing the...

Cybercriminals will gravitate to criminal activity that maximizes their profit
2018-06-28 12:00

McAfee released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2018, examining the growth and trends of new malware, ransomware, and other threats in Q1 2018. McAfee Labs saw on average five new threat...