Security News

Greek Court Orders Extradition of Russian Bitcoin Suspect to US
2017-12-13 17:55

Greece's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that a Russian accused of laundering $4 billion using bitcoin digital currency be extradited to the United States, a court source said. read more

US man is behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack?
2017-12-12 21:26

Who’s behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack? According to a notice received by Guido Landi, one of the former Hacking Team employees that was under investigation for the hack, a 30-year old Nashville,...

MoneyTaker’s stealthy hacking spree spread from US to Russia
2017-12-11 21:12

A stealthy group of Russian-speaking hackers has been targeting financial organizations (banks, credit unions, lenders) in the US and Russia, stealing money and documentation that could be used...

Senate Confirms New US Homeland Security Chief
2017-12-06 15:47

The US Senate confirmed White House deputy chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday, putting her in charge of implementing the Trump administration's...

Police vs Privacy: US Supreme Court Looks at Cell Phone Tracking
2017-11-30 20:27

Where do we go? Who do we talk to? What do we read about? Our mobile phones are troves of personal, private information, and the US Supreme Court weighed Wednesday how easily police should be able...

Windows 10 Security Feature Broken, US-CERT Warns
2017-11-21 13:03

Entropy Alert: Non-Random ASLR Leaves Systems Open To Buffer Overflow AttacksRecent versions of Windows have a security problem: They're not random enough, US-CERT warns. The problem centers on...

Amazon Creates Classified US Cloud
2017-11-21 12:16

Amazon has a cloud for U.S. classified data. The physical and computer requirements for handling classified information are considerable, both in terms of technology and procedure. I am surprised...

US-CERT Warns of ASLR Implementation Flaw In Windows
2017-11-20 22:30

US-CERT is warning of a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Address Space Layout Randomization that affects Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

A third of US businesses do not feel prepared for GDPR deadline
2017-11-17 12:15

New research by Censuswide captures the preparedness levels of organizations in Europe and the United States for the May 2018 GDPR compliance deadline, as well as their perceptions on the new...