Security News

Revisiting Election Security Threats
2019-03-14 14:48

FBI's Elvis Chan on What's Being Done to Secure the 2020 ElectionHeading into the 2020 U.S. presidential election preseason, the FBI is squarely focused on defending against nation-state hacks or...

Insider Threats Get Mean, Nasty and Very Personal
2019-03-14 12:27

Increasingly, attackers are targeting the most vulnerable people inside companies and exploiting their weaknesses.

Threat Groups SandCat, FruityArmor Exploiting Microsoft Win32k Flaw
2019-03-13 14:15

Newly patched CVE-2019-0797 is being actively exploited by two APTs, FruityArmor and SandCat.

Windows Zero-Day Exploited by FruityArmor, SandCat Threat Groups
2019-03-13 10:05

One of the zero-day vulnerabilities patched this week by Microsoft has been exploited in targeted attacks by several threats groups, including the ones known as FruityArmor and SandCat, Kaspersky...

The threat of quantum computers and the solutions that can protect us today
2019-03-13 07:00

In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2019, Avesta Hojjati, Head of R&D at DigiCert, talks about the threat of quantum computers and the solutions that are available to...

The Advantages of Automated Threat Hunting
2019-03-11 17:33

Steven Grossman of Bay Dynamics on Automating Critical Security TasksThreat hunting is a critical but labo- intensive task for security analysts. But automation can provide significant advantages,...

NASA's crap infosec could be 'significant threat' to space ops
2019-03-11 16:23

Inspectors not happy with stagnant security practices NASA's Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency's tech security practices are "not consistently...

Quantum computing: The biggest cybersecurity threats
2019-03-11 15:28

At RSA 2019, John Prisco of Quantum Xchange discussed what solutions organizations should consider to protect against quantum threats.

The impact of spear phishing on organizations and how to combat this growing threat
2019-03-11 07:10

In this Help Net Security podcast, Scott Olson, the VP of Product Marketing at iovation, talks about the impact of spear phishing, and offers practical suggestions on how to prevent this growing...

Unintended inferences: The biggest threat to data privacy and cybersecurity
2019-03-11 03:32

Find out why data privacy breaches and scandals, artificial intelligence, and analytics--think Facebook, Marriott, and Yahoo--have implications for how your business manages cybersecurity and privacy.