Security News

US Government halves deadline for applying critical patches to 15 days
2019-05-02 11:39

US federal agencies must fix their security bugs twice as quickly under new rules issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

'I do not wish to surrender' Julian Assange tells court over US extradition bid
2019-05-02 11:29

Case will be heard over May and June Julian Asssange unsurprisingly told a judge today that he did not “wish to surrender myself” to a US extradition request.…

Hey, those warrantless smartphone searches at the US border? Unconstitutional, yeah? Civil-rights warriors ask court to settle this
2019-05-01 19:51

Latest development in long-running lawsuit over electronic device slurping Civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have...

Assange Sentenced for Bail Jumping; US Extradition Looms
2019-05-01 15:48

British Judge Sentences WikiLeaks Founder to 50 Weeks in Prison for Violating Bail ConditionsOn Wednesday, a British judge sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for...

Mystery database exposes data on 80 million US households
2019-05-01 10:13

Put on your detective hat - the researchers who found it say it's full of people's data, but not who it belongs to.

Mystery Database Exposed Info on 80 Million US Households
2019-04-30 17:03

Researchers Locate an Unprotected 24GB Database With Names, Addresses and IncomesAn unsecured database hosted on Microsoft's cloud platform contained personal information on nearly 80 million U.S....

US Air Force and Privoro partners for MDM solution
2019-04-26 18:21

New mobile security prototyping contracting between Privoro and the United States Air Force leverages the SafeCase, intelligent smartphone case.

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland
2019-04-26 01:53

Ignoring privacy laws, storing plain text passwords, slurping millions of contact details come back to bite web giant Here's a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking...

Hackers bragged that pretty vanilla breach included FBI watchlist? Well, colour us shocked
2019-04-16 12:13

It's didn't, by the way – it's a bunch of ad industry folk A hacker collective calling itself Pokemongo that published what it claimed to be personal data of US FBI agents has followed up by...

US feds’ names, home and email addresses hacked and posted online
2019-04-16 10:00

A group of hackers that doxxed thousands of federal law enforcement employees last week has struck again.