Security News

US Senator Calls for Investigation into Russia-made FaceApp
2019-07-18 13:40

The chart-topping Russian-made FaceApp, which allows users to see how they will look as they age, found itself in the eye of a political storm in the US Wednesday, with one senator urging an FBI...

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation
2019-07-13 07:33

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica...

London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself
2019-07-11 12:48

And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has...

Investigation and Response is a Team Sport
2019-06-17 13:05

I’ve talked before about how we have the tools and technologies to make the intelligent SOC a reality. It’s a welcomed development given the global cybersecurity skills shortage of three million...

AD Enterprise: Perform end-to-end post-breach forensic investigations within a single tool
2019-05-29 01:00

AccessData Group, a leading provider of integrated digital forensics and e-discovery software, released AD Enterprise 7.1, a new version of its software for managing internal forensic...

Group Seeks Investigation of Deep Packet Inspection Use by ISPs
2019-05-16 15:46

European Digital Rights Organization Seeks Investigation Into Internet Service Providers' Use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) read more

US, EU Spar Over Sharing Electronic Evidence in Investigations
2019-05-13 18:04

In August 2016, the lifeless bodies of a young French man and woman were discovered on a beach in Madagascar, with murder suspected. The secret to the case could be in the last messages they sent,...

Verizon Publishes 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)
2019-05-08 04:00

Verizon 2019 DBIR Shows Financially Motivated Attacks Increasing While Criminals Switch to Easiest Targets read more

Welcome to the Age of the Investigations Platform
2019-05-06 16:40

Remember when we used to believe we could prevent every attack? We focused on prevention, layering defenses so that if one layer failed another would be there to stop the attack. As the years...

Facebook under investigation for harvesting 1.5m users’ contact lists
2019-04-30 10:06

For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process).