Security News

Unsecured Server Exposed Records of 1.2 Billion: Researchers
2019-11-22 22:48

Over 4 Terabytes of Data Exposed, Including Social Media Profiles, Personal InformationSome 4 terabytes of data on over 1.2 billion individuals - including LinkedIn and Facebook profiles - was...

XSS Flaw in Gmail's Dynamic Email Feature Earns Researcher $5,000
2019-11-20 14:22

A researcher has earned $5,000 from Google for an interesting cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in the dynamic email feature added a few months ago to Gmail. read more

Researchers Describe Significant Flaw in Intel's PMx Driver
2019-11-13 18:18

Intel Has Fixed Vulnerability That Allows for 'Near-Omnipotent Control' of DeviceResearchers at Eclypsium have revealed new details concerning a significant flaw in Intel's PMx driver, which they...

Researchers Discover TPM-Fail Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Devices
2019-11-13 09:34

A team of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details of two new potentially serious CPU vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to retrieve cryptographic keys protected inside TPM chips...

Researchers discover massive increase in Emotet activity
2019-11-13 06:00

Emotet had a 730% increase in activity in September after being in a near dormant state, Nuspire discovered. Emotet, a modular banking Trojan, has added additional features to steal contents of...

Researchers develop machine learning-based detector that stops lateral phishing attacks
2019-11-05 06:00

Lateral phishing attacks – scams targeting users from compromised email accounts within an organization – are becoming an increasing concern in the U.S. Whereas in the past attackers would send...

Researchers find hole in EU-wide identity system
2019-10-31 12:47

The EU has fixed a flaw in the powerful yet complex eIDAS digital identification system that let people authenticate as someone else.

Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
2019-10-25 21:04

Interesting article and paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....

Researchers Warn of New Cache-Poisoned DoS Attack Method
2019-10-24 21:32

A group of security researchers from German universities has devised a new class of web cache poisoning attacks that could render victim services unreachable. read more

Researchers Analyze North Korea-Linked NukeSped RAT
2019-10-24 14:44

Fortinet security researchers took a deep dive into NukeSped malware samples that share multiple similarities with other malware families used by North Korean threat actors. read more