Security News

Online shopping fraud to surge during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
2018-11-15 09:31

New benchmark data from ACI Worldwide revealed a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 peak holiday season. Based on hundreds of millions of merchant...

Consumers would stop engaging with a brand online following a breach
2018-11-12 07:00

Ping Identity surveyed more than 3,000 people across the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany to find out what they expect from brands when it comes to the safekeeping of personal...

Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online
2018-11-08 09:33

An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that...

Vulns in online shopping toolkit WooCommerce can blast a hole in your WordPress security
2018-11-07 21:45

Rogue managers can seize control of web shops A vulnerability in the WooCommerce online store platform, used by over four million vendors, can be exploited to hijack WordPress installations...

VirtualBox Guest-to-Host escape 0day and exploit released online
2018-11-07 13:07

Independent vulnerability researcher Sergey Zelenyuk has made public a zero-day vulnerability he discovered in VirtualBox, the popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle....

HSBC Data Breach Hits Online Banking Customers
2018-11-06 22:53

The data breach includes names, addresses, transaction histories, account information and more.

CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
2018-11-06 12:06

The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.

Online Radio Stations at Risk from Icecast Flaw
2018-11-05 21:27

A buffer overflow bug could silence online stations.

Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?
2018-11-04 19:10

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating...

Law Enforcement Faces Dilemma in Assessing Online Threats
2018-11-01 14:25

Their anger is all over social media for the whole world to see, with rants about minorities, relationships gone bad or paranoid delusions about perceived slights. read more