Security News

Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security
2020-01-31 21:06

On Sept. 11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. Gary DeMercurio, 43 of Seattle, and Justin Wynn, 29 of Naples, Fla., are both professional penetration testers employed by Coalfire Labs, a security firm based in Westminster, Colo. Iowa's State Court Administration had hired the company to test the security of its judicial buildings.

Google tests biometric authentication for Android autofill
2020-01-14 11:31

Google is testing out a feature to make Android's built-in password manager safer, according to online sleuths who have picked apart its software. You could use it to take autofill input from third-party password managers, or if you wanted to keep everything in your Google account, you could use autofill with Google's own password management service.

Why Penetration Tests Are So Essential
2020-01-13 20:33

Corporate network security breaches, which can prove costly to remediate and expose a company to lawsuits, are frequently the result of vulnerabilities that could have been fixed for a relatively low cost. During the internal phase, our team's white hack attackers moved around laterally within the entire network via the external access provided by the JBoss issue.

LifeLabs Pays Hackers Who Accessed 15M Customers’ Lab Test Results
2019-12-18 15:44

The data breach disclosure was met with ire from customers whose lab test results, health card numbers and more were accessed.

Canadian Lab Test Provider Pays Ransom to Secure Hacked Data
2019-12-18 03:38

Lab test provider LifeLabs said Tuesday that it paid a ransom to secure data for Canadians that was stolen in a data breach in late October. read more

Mastercard tests new digital identity service
2019-12-16 03:00

Mastercard marked the first tests of a new digital service that has the potential to verify a person’s identity immediately, safely and securely in both the digital and the physical world. The...

Signal Tests Upgraded Cryptography for Groups Function
2019-12-11 18:52

The secure messaging service is looking to address usability issues.

How to test employee cyber competence through pen-testing
2019-12-11 06:15

Social engineering hacking preys on the vulnerabilities inherent in human psychology, so it’s vital for organizations to test employee cyber competence. Take the Nigerian 419 scam as an example –...

Unity Technologies’ new cloud-based simulation product trains, tests, or validates products
2019-09-25 02:30

Unity Technologies, creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, announced Unity Simulation, a cloud-based simulation product for running multiple instances of a Unity project...

Keysight announces a new set of industrial TSN conformance test cases in IxNetwork from Ixia
2019-09-24 01:45

Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a new set of...