Security News

Sarah Armstrong appointed as Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation
2019-07-02 23:00

The Internet Society announced that it has appointed Sarah Armstrong as Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation. In her new role, Ms. Armstrong will be responsible for leading the...

Cloudflare Calls Internet Outage 'Small Heart Attack'
2019-06-28 12:03

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses Cloudflare's harsh criticism of Verizon over an internet outage it labeled as a "small heart attack." Plus: sizing up the impact of GDPR;...

Cloudflare Criticizes Verizon Over Internet Outage
2019-06-26 12:33

'Small Heart Attack' Incident Points to Problems Keeping Internet Infrastructure SecureCloudflare was unsparing in its criticism of Verizon over a BGP snafu that hampered 15 percent of its global...

Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss
2019-06-25 08:10

Even govt rules have knock-on effects, warns Andrew Sullivan Interview Andrew Sullivan, chief exec of the Internet Society, has condemned governments that "interfere in underlying technologies...

Majority of FTSE 250 Companies Expose Multiple Weaknesses to Internet: Analysis
2019-06-13 10:39

Rapid7 has analyzed the visible cyber exposure of some of the UK's largest companies -- the FTSE 250. read more

Tool Links Internet-Exposed ICS to Google Street View
2019-06-11 13:48

An open source tool named Kamerka allows users to generate a map of Internet-exposed industrial control systems (ICS) in a specified country and link results to Google Street View. read more

Top Russian Internet Firm Reportedly Under Pressure on Data
2019-06-04 17:10

Russia's leading internet company said Tuesday that it's committed to data privacy as it responded to reports that the national intelligence agency is pressuring it into handing over encryption...

Public Exposure of Sensitive Files on the Internet is Getting Worse
2019-05-31 13:31

2.3 billion files are currently exposed and accessible through misconfigured network-attached storage (NAS) devices, FTP and rsync servers, and Amazon S3 buckets to anyone on the internet. That's...

BlueKeep RDP flaw: Nearly a million Internet-facing systems are vulnerable
2019-05-29 10:09

Two weeks have passed since Microsoft released security fixes and mitigation advice to defang expected exploits taking advantage of CVE-2019-0708 (aka BlueKeep), a wormable unauthenticated remote...

Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable
2019-05-28 22:07

If you haven't patched CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, then, well, now would be a good time The critical Windows Remote Desktop flaw that emerged this month may have set the stage for the worst...