A moderately skilled hacker managed to steal export-restricted data pertaining to the Reaper drone and Abrams tank from computers belonging to two US Army officials. Sensitive US military documents,...
Read moreNotorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web
July 12 2018Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was...
Read moreAs of June, a total of $31 million has been awarded to security researchers for this year – already a big jump from the $11.7 million awarded for the...
Read moreWhat We Talk about When We Talk about Risk
July 11 2018Measuring security risk is not that hard if you get your terms straight and leverage well-established methods and principles from other disciplines. How enthusiastic would you be to ride...
Read morePatch Tuesday, July 2018 Edition
July 11 2018Microsoft and Adobe each issued security updates for their products today. Microsoft’s July patch batch includes 14 updates to fix more than 50 security flaws in Windows and associated...
Read morePatch Tuesday includes 53 security updates, including mitigation for the latest side-channel attack. Microsoft issued a range of security patches today, including its anticipated exploit-mitigation update for the so-called...
Read moreEmail and Emotions
July 11 2018Email is still one of the primary ways we communicate, both in our personal and professional lives. However, we can quite often be our own worst enemy when using...
Read moreThreat actor Magecart has infiltrated over 800 e-commerce sites with card skimming software installed on third-party software components, RiskIQ says. Cybersecurity vendor RiskIQ’s investigation of a recently disclosed breach...
Read moreAT&T to Buy AlienVault
July 11 2018Terms of the deal – which closes in Q3 – were not disclosed. ATT today announced that it will acquire threat intelligence company AlienVault in a move to extend...
Read moreAT&T to Buy AlienVault
July 11 2018Terms of the deal – which closes in Q3 – were not disclosed. ATT today announced that it will acquire threat intelligence company AlienVault in a move to extend...
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