yro.slashdot.org - Google defended how it polices third-party add-ons for Gmail in a letter to U.S. senators made public on Thursday, saying that upfront review catches the "majority" of bad actors. A report adds: Google said it uses automated scans and reports from security researchers to monitor third parties wit...
infosecurity-magazine.com - Attackers are successfully stealing the credentials of employees and using them in account takeover (ATO) incidents more frequently, which makes business email compromise (BEC) one of the most prevalent types of cyber fraud, according toBarracuda Networks. The latest Threat Spotlight, looked at ...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Corporate networks have quickly become more and more complex. Change requests are regularly processed in the hundreds by IT security teams, which are then applied to company owned network devices. As a result, underlying network configuration processes increase in size and complexity, impacting...
darkreading.com - 3 Drivers Behind the Increasing Frequency of DDoS AttacksWhat's causing the uptick? Motivation, opportunity, and new capabilities. According to IDC Research's recent US DDoS Prevention Survey, more than 50% of IT security decision makers said that their organization had been the victim of a distr...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Details are emerging about a recent ransomware attack against VON Canada, the nation’s only nonprofit home and community care organization. Reports state that the organization discovered the problem on September 1 but as of now it hasn’t fully resumed normal operations. They haven’t found evidenc...
tech.slashdot.org - The rumors were true. Amazon on Thursday announced a range of new Echo smart speakers and other Alexa-enabled devices. The company first announced the Echo Sub, its answer to voice-enabled premium audio products such as Apple's HomePod, Sonos One, and Google Home Max. Then there is the Echo Input...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - In response to the news that the authors of the Mirai botnet have avoided prison sentences after cooperating with the FBI and providing substantial assistance in other complex cybercrime investigations, IT security experts commented below. Nadav Avital, Threat Analytics Manager at Imperva: “Assum...
news.softpedia.com - Crowdstrike announced its inclusion in the US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), with its cloud-based endpoint protection solution Crowdstrike Falcon being authorized on the US region GovCloud solution, according to a Nextgov report. Crowdstrike is a next-gen endpoint p...
ehackingnews.com - In its next software update, WhatsApp is all set to let loose to the world, fresh features like Dark Mode which would turn the icons and the screen to a darker shade and would boost the battery life. Renewed features of this super trendy app will help make late-night texting easier for the eye...
tech.slashdot.org - coondoggie shares a report: In a few months, the internet will be a more secure place. That's because the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to go ahead with the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet's address book -- the ...
news.slashdot.org - Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are "wild west" assets that expose investors to a litany of risks and are in urgent need of regulation, MPs on the Treasury select committee have said. From a report: The committee said in a report that consumers were left unprotected from an unregulated industr...
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news.softpedia.com - According to a report by the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) nonprofit, shows that voter registration databases (VRDBs) are more secure in 2018, with most states involved in the survey have added access monitoring and backups. CEIR's survey looked at three major areas of VRDB ...
bleepingcomputer.com - NSS Labs has filed an anti-trust law suit against CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET, and the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) over an alleged conspiracy to prevent independent testing companies from performing unbiased reviews of security software.
zdnet.com - The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information), has open-sourced CLIP OS, an in-house operating system its engineers had developed to address the needs of the French government administration. In a press release, ANSS...
yro.slashdot.org - Credit rating giant Equifax has been issued with the maximum possible penalty by the UK's data protection agency for last year's massive data breach. From a report: Albeit, the fine is only 500,000 Pound (roughly $6,62,000) because the loss of customer data occurred when the UK's prior privacy re...
blog.malwarebytes.com - Beyond the medium used to reach you (which is most often email), what are some of the common signs and behaviors of phishing? Conversations that focus on the inbox only leave users with an inadequate understanding of how to protect against this ubiquitous threat.
blog.knowbe4.com - Microsoft Office documents containing malicious macros accounted for 45 percent of malware loaders in August 2018, according to a blog post by Cofense. These macros were used to deliver a wide range of different types of malware, showing that this method is a universal top choice for both sophist...
computerworld.com - If you look beyond the inexplicable ‘Patch Monday’ dump and some forgettable vorpal blades aimed at the Meltdown/Spectre Jabberwocky, this month’s Windows and Office patches are the best-behaved in months.
it.slashdot.org - Cloudflare announced on Monday a new service named the "Cloudflare Onion Service" that can distinguish between bots and legitimate Tor traffic. The main advantage of this new service is, said Cloudflare, that Tor users will see far less, or even no CAPTCHAs when accessing a Cloudflare-protected w...
bbc.com - Image copyright Reuters Image caption The data breach affected 15 million UK customers Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined 500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons. A 2017 cyber-attack exposed information b...
inforisktoday.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach Why CASBs Matter to Cloud Security Presented by McAfee 60 minutes With the rapid adoption of cloud services like Office365, Salesforce, Workday, AWS and Azure, organizations in all industries, and of all sizes find themselves on 'cloud first', and some even 'cloud ...
cuinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach Why CASBs Matter to Cloud Security Presented by McAfee 60 minutes With the rapid adoption of cloud services like Office365, Salesforce, Workday, AWS and Azure, organizations in all industries, and of all sizes find themselves on 'cloud first', and some even 'cloud ...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - With the Summer holidays coming to an end, students across the UK will soon be returning to the classroom. As preparations for the next academic year commence, now is the time for everyone do their homework and ensure a cyber-savvy approach to schooling sits front and centre for 2018 and beyond. ...
news.slashdot.org - Several Slashdot readers shared this report overnight: A gunman shot four people, none fatally, at his Middleton workplace Wednesday morning before he was killed in a shootout with police, Middleton Police Chief Charles Foulke said. Authorities had not released the man's name or age, but police s...
govinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach Why CASBs Matter to Cloud Security Presented by McAfee 60 minutes With the rapid adoption of cloud services like Office365, Salesforce, Workday, AWS and Azure, organizations in all industries, and of all sizes find themselves on 'cloud first', and some even 'cloud ...
bankinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach Why CASBs Matter to Cloud Security Presented by McAfee 60 minutes With the rapid adoption of cloud services like Office365, Salesforce, Workday, AWS and Azure, organizations in all industries, and of all sizes find themselves on 'cloud first', and some even 'cloud ...
welivesecurity.com - Three men who have pleaded guilty to developing and operating a powerful botnet known as Mirai that in its heyday comprised hundreds of thousands of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices received an unusually lenient sentence thanks to their cooperation with law enforcement and security researchers to...
hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - More than a year after hackers breached credit reporting agency Equifax to steal 146 million customer records, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the company with a £500,000 fine – a small penalty for a such a monumental blunder. You might wonder why the UK and not the US (...
linux.slashdot.org - Linus Torvalds announced on Sunday that he was sorry for how he treated the community over the years. Torvalds, 48, said he planned to make some changes to how he conducted himself, and on that part, he said he would be taking some time off from Linux kernel development work. The New Yorker has p...
news.softpedia.com - As detailed in Adobe's APSB18-34 security bulletin, the company has released security updates to patch critical and exploitable vulnerabilities on macOS and Windows versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The app versions affected are DC Continuous, DC Classic, and 2017, for both the Adobe Acrobat...
