Security News

Post-WannaCry, UK Promises NHS England a Funding Injection
2017-10-31 16:47

But Solving Cybersecurity Problems Requires More Than Pounds and PenceFollowing the WannaCry outbreak, the British government says it's increased cybersecurity funding for England's national...

North Korea Denies Involvement in WannaCry Cyberattack
2017-10-31 11:32

North Korea has slammed Britain for accusing it of being behind a global ransomware attack that hit the National Health Service, calling the allegation a "wicked attempt" to further tighten...

WannaCry: A Fresh Perspective on the Ransomware Attack
2017-10-31 10:18

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report leads with an analysis of a British parliamentary probe into the WannaCry ransomware attack on England's National Health Service. Also, cyber threats...

Postmortem Finds NHS 'Could Have Prevented' WannaCry
2017-10-27 11:03

Basic Cybersecurity Defense Every Day Keeps the Ransomware Infections at BayThe National Health Service in England should have been able to block the "unsophisticated" WannaCry ransomware...

Patching Against the Next WannaCry Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8620)
2017-08-18 16:43

This month's Microsoft patch updates include one particular vulnerability that is raising concerns: CVE-2017-8620, which affects all versions of Windows from 7 onwards. Microsoft explained, "in an...

WannaCry 'Hero' Pleads Not Guilty, Allowed Back Online (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-15 15:48

Marcus Hutchins Can Work, But Not Touch WannaCry's SinkholeThe British security researcher credited with stopping the WannaCry ransomware outbreak pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he...

WannaCry 'Hero' Pleads Not Guilty, Allowed Back Online (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-15 13:18

Marcus Hutchins Can Work, But Not Touch WannaCry's SinkholeThe British security researcher credited with stopping the WannaCry ransomware outbreak pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he...

IPS as a Service Blocks WannaCry Spread Across the WAN (The Hackers News)
2017-08-14 06:10

One of the most devastating aspects of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack was its self-propagating capability exploiting a vulnerability in the file access protocol, SMB v1. Most enterprises...

WannaCry 'Accidental Hero' Denies FBI Charges (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-07 13:48

Marcus Hutchins Pleads Not Guilty to Charges Related to Kronos MalwareCybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges relating to creating and selling...

UK hacker who stopped WannaCry charged with creating and distributing banking Trojan (Help Net Security)
2017-08-04 16:23

Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old UK researcher who found the kill-switch domain in the WannaCry ransomware code and registered it, preventing the malware to wreak even more chaos than it did, has...