Security News

Internet-Exposed HMIs Put Energy, Water Facilities at Risk: Report
2018-10-30 14:16

Malicious actors could cause serious damage to organizations in the energy and water sectors by targeting their human-machine interfaces (HMIs), according to a report released by Trend Micro on...

China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
2018-10-30 11:28

Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.

Security Vulnerability in Internet-Connected Construction Cranes
2018-10-29 11:18

This seems bad: The F25 software was found to contain a capture replay vulnerability -- basically an attacker would be able to eavesdrop on radio transmissions between the crane and the...

Analysis of North Korea's Internet Traffic Shows a Nation Run Like a Criminal Syndicate
2018-10-27 19:42

Recorded Future has published a series of analyses on North Korea's most senior leadership's use of the internet. As the last report of the series, it demonstrates how adaptable this leadership...

Botnets Keep Brute-Forcing Internet of Things Devices
2018-10-24 14:33

Shotgun Attacks Target Default Username/Password Combinations via TelnetTwo years after Mirai botnets first appeared, security researchers say telnet-targeting botnets are attempting to compromise...

West Virginia Using Internet Voting
2018-10-19 11:17

This is crazy (and dangerous). West Virginia is allowing people to vote via a smart-phone app. Even crazier, the app uses blockchain -- presumably because they have no idea what the security...

A10 Networks provides cloud, Internet and gaming providers with 1 RU DDoS defense appliance
2018-10-18 01:00

A10 Networks launched the A10 Thunder 7445 Threat Protection System (Thunder TPS), the performance 1 rack unit (RU) and density of throughput per RU appliance. Now cloud, Internet and gaming...

Around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks
2018-10-15 17:41

The highly popular PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving security updates at the end of the year.

Contain spotting: Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal source code, config files on public internet
2018-09-26 20:38

Container images leak through insecure registry Exclusive Russian airline Aeroflot has exposed to the public internet the internal blueprints for its website, aeroflot.ru, the Register has learned.…

Senate Panel to Hear From Internet Execs on Privacy Policies
2018-09-26 14:16

The Trump administration is hoping Congress can come up with a new set of national rules governing how companies can use consumers' data that finds a balance between "privacy and prosperity." read more