Security News

Slack Vulnerability Allowed Hackers to Hijack Accounts
2020-03-16 15:14

A researcher earned $6,500 from Slack last year after finding a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack Slack accounts. The vulnerability was reported to Slack in mid-November via the company's bug bounty program on HackerOne and it was patched within 24 hours, which is not uncommon for Slack when it comes to account hijacking issues.

Nightfall AI unveils list of investors and partners with Slack as a DLP vendor
2020-02-13 00:00

Nightfall AI, a cloud data security platform, announced an extended list of investors participating in its oversubscribed Series A round. "We are thrilled to work with this exceptional set of investors. They bring an incredible breadth of experience and will be invaluable partners as we scale the company. They recognize our innovative approach as the industry's first cloud-native DLP and our rapid growth in this new category," remarks Isaac Madan, Nightfall's CEO and co-founder.

CipherCloud CASB+ for Slack: Visibility, protection and control of all user activity on Slack
2020-02-10 03:30

CASB+ for Slack provides 360o visibility, protection and control of all user activity on Slack as well as continuous risk assessment against external or internal threats. The result is end-to-end data protection and compliance for more than 10 million active Slack users today.

Your workmates might still be reading that 'unshared' Slack document
2019-12-16 16:00

IRC-for-millennials biz shrugs: Yeah, we might fix that later Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in messaging app Slack that allows a file shared in a private channel to be viewed by...

Slack Offers Bigger Rewards for Serious Vulnerabilities
2019-10-29 14:20

Slack informed bug bounty hunters on Monday that it has increased the minimum rewards for serious vulnerabilities found in its products and websites. read more

Slack Unveils New Enterprise Security Tools
2019-08-06 17:19

Slack on Tuesday unveiled several new security tools designed to provide administrators of its Enterprise Grid product better control over who can use the platform and how they do it. read more

Slack's new security features give enterprise admins more control over data
2019-08-06 15:00

Slack's Enterprise Grid product now helps admins limit which people and devices can access Slack, and how Slack can be used.

4 years after data breach, Slack resets 100,000 users’ passwords
2019-07-19 11:51

Roughly 100,000 Slack users are getting their password reset and will have to choose a new one. The reason? During the data breach the company suffered in 2015, the attackers have apparently not...

2015 database hack is the terrible gift that keeps giving for Slack: Tens of thousands of passwords now reset
2019-07-19 06:38

Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in Slack says a 2015 database theft is to blame for a large-scale reset of stolen passwords.…

Slack Initiates Mass Password Reset
2019-07-18 18:33

More victims of a 2015 credential-harvesting incident have come to light.