Security News

Bipartisan Legislation to Require DHS Alerts on Election Hacking
2019-07-12 15:36

Bipartisan legislation formally unveiled this week would require the Department of Homeland Security to send notifications on breaches affecting the election systems.  read more

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled
2019-07-03 20:27

Recent policy remains unclear about what's disallowed YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people's copyrights and in recent years for its vacillating policies on...

Russian 'Silence' hacking crew turns up the volume – with $3m-plus cyber-raid on bank's cash machines
2019-07-03 11:10

Dutch Bangla falls victim to coordinated ATM scam A prominent Russian hacker crew is seemingly expanding its reach – having just pulled off a multi-million dollar cyber-heist in Bangladesh, we're told.…

Industry Reactions to Nation-State Hacking of Global Telcos
2019-06-28 13:19

On June 25, 2019, Cybereason reported that hackers, most likely China's state affiliated APT10 group, had comprehensively hacked numerous telecommunications companies around the world. read more

Wipro wasn't a one-off: Same hacking crew targeted scores of firms, big and small – researchers
2019-06-26 12:30

Thanks in large part to a counter-phishing product. Doh! The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of...

Hacking Hardware Security Modules
2019-06-20 11:56

Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module (HSM) talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation targets an HSM...

Florida Effort to Block Election Hacking Gets Extra $2M
2019-06-18 05:15

Florida’s county elections departments will retain $2.3 million in unspent grant money aimed at stopping cyber-attacks on the state’s voting system, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. read more

Hacking these medical pumps is as easy as copying a booby-trapped file over the network
2019-06-13 19:22

Uncle Sam sounds alarm after Windows CE SMB left wide open on hospital equipment Two security vulnerabilities in medical workstations can exploited by scumbags to hijack the devices and connected...

New Version of ShellTea Backdoor Used by FIN8 Hacking Group
2019-06-11 17:00

Researchers have detected a new campaign against the hotel-entertainment industry employing the first documented use of the ShellTea/PunchBuggy backdoor since 2017. It is also thought to be the...