Security News

Disqus, Forrester Research suffer data breach
2017-10-09 14:50

Popular blog comment hosting service Disqus and market research company Forrester Research announced late on Friday that they’ve suffered a breach. While the latter was apparently limited to...

Research Reports Stolen in Forrester Website Hack
2017-10-09 05:08

Forrester, one of the world’s most influential market research and advisory firms, informed customers late on Friday that its main website had been breached. read more

Third-Party Risks a Rising Cyber Threat, Research Shows
2017-09-28 12:28

Third-party risk and understanding that risk continues to grow; but mitigation of the risk is, if anything, getting worse. This can be seen in two separate studies published this week by Ponemon...

Research on What Motivates ISIS -- and Other -- Fighters (Schneier on Security)
2017-09-07 11:05

Interesting research from Nature Human Behaviour: "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict": Abstract: Frontline investigations with fighters against the...

FDA Recalls 465K Pacemakers Tied to MedSec Research (Threatpost)
2017-08-31 17:26

Abbott Laboratories releases software fixes for pacemakers that could allow an attacker to wirelessly access the devices and steal personal data, drain the battery and disrupt normal...

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-07 11:20

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging...

UK ICO offers grants for practical privacy research (Help Net Security)
2017-06-08 15:24

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a Grants Programme to promote and support independent, innovative research and solutions focused on privacy and data protection issues....

Researchers Disclose Intel AMT Flaw Research (Threatpost)
2017-05-05 22:17

Security firm Embedi releases further details on the Intel AMT flaw, revealing how it can be exploited and how potentially dangerous it can be.