Security News

Hacking healthcare: A call for infosec researchers to probe biomedical devices
2019-04-10 06:11

It is a brave new connected world out there and there is no shortage of cybersecurity risks associated with everything we do. We can’t even be sure that the technologies that keep as alive and...

New infosec products of the week: April 5, 2019
2019-04-05 05:00

Free cybersecurity threat assessment for midsize and large organizations Cynet unveiled the Cynet Threat Assessment program. The free offering for organizations with 500 or more endpoints...

AI infosec biz Darktrace boasts near-doubled revenues as firm alumni battle HPE in civil case
2019-04-01 14:50

Besieged Autonomy CEO, CFO both had fingers in the startup Darktrace, the security startup backed in part by Mike Lynch, the exec currently involved in a big civil fraud case being heard at the...

Brit founder of Windows leaks website BuildFeed, infosec bod spared jail over Microsoft hack
2019-03-29 18:20

26 and 24-year-olds slapped with suspended sentences, community work orders The Brit who ran the BuildFeed website of Windows leaks has been handed a suspended prison sentence – along with a...

Brit founder of Windows leaks website Buildfeed and infosec bod spared jail for hacking Microsoft
2019-03-29 18:20

26 and 24-year-olds slapped with suspended sentences, community work orders The Brit who ran the BuildFeed website of Windows leaks has been handed a suspended prison sentence – along with a...

New infosec products of the week: March 29, 2019
2019-03-29 06:45

Guardicore launches freely available public resource for investigating malicious IP addresses and domains Guardicore Threat Intelligence is a freely available public resource for identifying and...

Aussie InfoSec Researcher to Be Sentenced
2019-03-26 16:33

Police Charged Researcher With Network IntrusionAn Australian computer security researcher will be sentenced May 1 after pleading guilty to several charges related to an unauthorized intrusion...

Lone staffer killed our shields, claims etailer Gearbest after infosec bods peep at user deets
2019-03-18 13:40

Whether it's 1.5m or 280k exposed, it's not a great look Researchers working for VPNMentor have accused Chinese e-commerce site Gearbest of storing user information in "completely unsecured"...

Public spending watchdog snipes at UK.gov's £1.3bn infosec plan – but broadly nods it through
2019-03-15 13:13

Less hiding behind 'national security' to hush up failures, please Britain's Cabinet Office (CO) hasn’t quite bungled the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP) but it could certainly be doing...

NASA's crap infosec could be 'significant threat' to space ops
2019-03-11 16:23

Inspectors not happy with stagnant security practices NASA's Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency's tech security practices are "not consistently...