Security News

Podcast: Dating App Privacy and NASA Cyberattack
2019-06-21 19:35

The Threatpost team discusses the top news of the week - from a NASA cyberincident to dating app privacy issues.

Best Practices for Cyberattack Prevention and Response
2019-06-20 12:48

Secon Cyber's Andrew Gogarty Describes High-Impact Risk Reduction StrategiesOrganizations that want to ensure they have a solid cybersecurity strategy must ensure they rigorously pursue best...

Feds: Cyberattack on NASA’s JPL Threatened Mission-Control Data
2019-06-19 21:02

Rampant security-operations bungling allowed cyberattackers to infiltrate JPL's network, which carries human mission data.

Russia Says Victim of US Cyberattacks 'for Years'
2019-06-18 12:36

The Kremlin on Tuesday said Moscow had been the victim of US cyberattacks "for years" following a New York Times report that Washington is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's power grid. read more

Cyberattacks Target DNA Sequencing software
2019-06-18 04:53

A threat actor that appears to be based in Iran is targeting a vulnerability in a popular DNA sequencing LIMS software, a security researcher had discovered.  read more

Two Weekend Outages, Neither a Cyberattack
2019-06-17 12:18

Argentina and Others Suffer Power Outages; System Maintenance Disrupts TargetNot all that crashes has been hacked. To wit, this past weekend there were multiple major outages, including much of...

Cyberattack Risk: Scans Find Big Businesses Exposed
2019-06-12 13:48

Britain's biggest businesses continue to inappropriately expose servers and services to the internet, putting the organizations and data at risk, according to a study by Rapid7. Tod Beardsley...

The Human Cost of Cyberattacks
2019-05-31 22:01

The International Committee of the Red Cross has just published a report: "The Potential Human Cost of Cyber-Operations." It's the result of an "ICRC Expert Meeting" from last year, but was...

Cyberattack Hits New Zealand Budget
2019-05-30 00:22

The New Zealand government said Wednesday that a "systematic" and "deliberate" cyberattack was behind an embarrassing leak of secret finance documents ahead of this week's budget. Treasury...

IoT cyberattacks are the new normal, the security mindset isn’t
2019-05-29 08:23

Eight in ten organizations have experienced a cyberattack on their IoT devices in the past 12 months, according to new research by Irdeto. Of those organizations, 90% experienced an impact as a...