Security News

Breach exposed details of 2 million T-Mobile US customers – report
2018-08-24 10:50

'International group' of hackers fingered, financial data safe T-Mobile US has fallen victim to a data breach, the company confirmed in a brief note on its website.…

Leaker of Secret Report on Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years
2018-08-24 04:46

A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal with...

Podcast: Bad Packets Report Founder on Rising Cryptojacking Attacks
2018-08-22 13:38

Cryptojacking attacks are on the rise. We talk to security researcher Troy Mursch about why bad actors are drawn to this attack technique.

CVE? Nope. NVD? Nope. Serious must-patch type flaws skipping mainstream vuln lists – report
2018-08-14 15:10

Infosec firm fingers 'decentralised' reporting The first half of 2018 saw a record haul of reported software vulnerabilities yet a high proportion of these won’t appear in any mainstream...

“Attack” on FCC over net neutrality was legitimate traffic, report says
2018-08-09 13:21

An FCC Office of Inspector General (OIG) report has found no evidence of DDoS attacks on the FCC's comments system.

DDoS Attacks Less Frequent But Pack More Punch: Report
2018-08-08 16:32

There were seven times more distributed denial (DDoS) attacks larger than 300 Gbps (gigabit per second) observed during the first six months of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017, NETSCOUT...

New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques
2018-07-27 17:10

According to a new CSIS report, "going dark" is not the most pressing problem facing law enforcement in the age of digital data: Over the past year, we conducted a series of interviews with...

Under GDPR, Data Breach Reports in UK Have Quadrupled
2018-07-25 12:03

Privacy Regulator Sees 1,750 Breach Reports in June, Up From 700 in MayUnder the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, within 72 hours of an organization learning about the data breach, it must...

Encryption gripes, election security, and mandatory cybersec school: DOJ releases first task force report
2018-07-20 19:12

Sessions debuts report on government's threat landscape The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has released its first report from its Cyber Digital Task Force, which was set up in February to advise...

New Report on Chinese Intelligence Cyber-Operations
2018-07-20 11:38

The company ProtectWise just published a long report linking a bunch of Chinese cyber-operations over the past few years. The always interesting gruqq has some interesting commentary on the group...