Security News

Many Phoenix Contact PLCs Still Vulnerable Months After Researcher Issues Warning
2019-07-02 13:02

Several months after a researcher issued a warning about over 1,200 Phoenix Contact programmable logic controllers (PLCs) being exposed to remote attacks from the internet, many organizations...

Researchers Analyze Vietnamese Hackers' Suite of RATs
2019-07-02 04:54

BlackBerry Cylance security researchers have analyzed a suite of remote access Trojans (RATs) that the Vietnam-linked threat actor OceanLotus has been using in attacks for the past three years. read more

Threat actors are doing their homework, researchers identify new impersonation techniques
2019-06-27 05:15

There is an increase in three main areas: spoofed phishing attempts, HTTPS encryption in URL-based attacks, and cloud-based attacks focused on publicly hosted, trusted file-sharing services,...

Presidential Phone Alerts Can Be Spoofed, Researchers Say
2019-06-26 16:55

Presidential Alerts that all modern cell phones in the United States are required to receive and display as part of the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) program can be spoofed, researchers have...

Wipro wasn't a one-off: Same hacking crew targeted scores of firms, big and small – researchers
2019-06-26 12:30

Thanks in large part to a counter-phishing product. Doh! The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of...

Presidential text alerts are open to spoofing attacks, warn researchers
2019-06-25 10:48

Researchers have shown that it’s technically possible for hackers to target the US Presidential text Alerts system to send fake messages.

Emergency Presidential Alerts can be spoofed, researchers warn
2019-06-25 05:15

Spurred by the panic-inducing fake alarm about an inbound ballistic missile received by Hawaii residents in January 2018, a group of researchers from University of Colorado Boulder wanted to check...

Facebook posts reveal your hidden illnesses, say researchers
2019-06-24 10:02

The language we use could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms.

Researchers develop a technique to vaccinate algorithms against adversarial attacks
2019-06-24 05:15

A set of techniques to effectively vaccinate algorithms against adversarial attacks have been developed by researchers from CSIRO’s Data61. Algorithms ‘learn’ from the data they are trained on to...

IoT explodes worldwide, researchers investigate security issues present in the devices real users own
2019-06-20 05:30

About 40 percent of households across the globe now contain at least one IoT device, according to Avast. In North America, that number is almost double, at 66 percent, bringing with it an...