Security News

Congressional Report Rips Equifax for Weak Security
2019-04-08 21:03

Senate Panel Says Company Lacked Strong Security Culture Before Massive Data BreachThe lack of a strong security culture at Equifax - especially compared its two main competitors - was a key...

E-commerce JavaScript Sniffer Attacks Proliferate: Report
2019-04-05 20:18

Group-IB Researchers Analyze the Latest Global TrendsJavaScript sniffers - specialized malware that skims credit card information and other data from online shopping - are becoming far more...

Ethiopia sits on 737 Max report but says pilots followed Boeing drills
2019-04-04 15:07

Promised prelim investigation should be out this week Ethiopia's transport minister has said the national carrier's pilots were following published Boeing procedures immediately before the fatal...

Report: FBI Fails to Promptly Notify Cybercrime Victims
2019-04-03 18:03

Inspect General Cites Numerous Errors in How FBI Makes NotificationsThe FBI is largely failing to notify cybercrime victims of their rights in a timely manner following a "cyber intrusion," a new...

Accenture reports revenues of $10.5 billion
2019-03-31 23:00

Accenture reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2019, ended Feb. 28, 2019, with revenues of $10.5 billion, an increase of 5 percent in U.S. dollars and 9 percent in local...

Systems Used to Track U.S. Debt Vulnerable - Report
2019-03-28 19:18

GAO Audit Finds Systems Treasury Department Uses Have Security FlawsThe computer systems the U.S. Department of the Treasury uses to track the nation's debt have serious security flaws that could...

Report: Half of Breaches Trace to Hacking, Malware Attacks
2019-03-26 19:18

Business Email Compromise and Payroll Portal Hacks Are Surging, Beazley WarnsBeazley Breach Response Services, a unit of global insurance company Beazley, reports that nearly half of the more than...

Inside Netscout's Threat Report
2019-03-25 21:18

Hardik Modi of Netscout Analyzes the Latest Cybercrime TrendsNetscout is out with its latest threat report, and the research offers some startling new insights into DDoS, advanced threats and the...

Oregon Agency Reports Phishing Attack Affecting 350,000
2019-03-25 20:03

Incident Among Largest Health Data Breaches So Far in 2019The Oregon Department of Human Services is among the latest entities to reveal a phishing breach impacting the protected health...

Report: Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext
2019-03-21 18:33

Facebook Under Fresh Scrutiny Over How It Stored User PasswordsFacebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were...