Security News

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outage
2019-08-22 23:14

Security bod may be invited back into vuln reward program, Half-Life 3 still ain't happening Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for...

Venafi guarantees elimination of certificate-related outages within complex architectures
2019-08-08 02:30

Venafi, the leading provider and inventor of machine identity protection, announced at Black Hat USA 2019 the industry’s first no-outage guarantee. Combining the power of the Venafi platform with...

Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City
2019-07-26 10:03

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the...

Certificate-related outages impact the reputation of financial services organizations
2019-07-18 04:45

Financial services organizations are more likely to have digital certificate-related outages than other industries, a Venafi study reveals. Over 100 CIOs in the financial services industry from...

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...

Two Weekend Outages, Neither a Cyberattack
2019-06-17 12:18

Argentina and Others Suffer Power Outages; System Maintenance Disrupts TargetNot all that crashes has been hacked. To wit, this past weekend there were multiple major outages, including much of...

Salesforce Woes Linger as Admins Clean Up After Service Outage
2019-05-20 15:55

An accidental permissions snafu caused a massive outage for all Salesforce customers that continues to affect some businesses.

What’s Behind the Wolters Kluwer Tax Outage?
2019-05-07 19:56

Early in the afternoon on Friday, May, 3, I asked a friend to relay a message to his security contact at CCH, the cloud-based tax division of the global information services firm Wolters Kluwer in...

CIOs admit certificate-related outages routinely impact critical business applications and services
2019-03-29 06:00

Certificate-related outages harm the reliability and availability of vital network systems and services while also being extremely difficult to diagnose and remediate. Unfortunately, the vast...