Infosecurity News

  1. Bug-Hunting Hackers Earn Top Dollar for Efforts

    Top-earning researchers make 2.7 times the median salary of a software engineer.

  2. Three-Quarters of Businesses Saw Phishing Attacks in 2017

    Further, nearly half of information security professionals surveyed said that the rate of attacks increased from 2016.

  3. (ISC)² Names Board Chairperson, New Board Members

    Kevin Charest, CISO for Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) and the 2017 (ISC)² board of directors secretary, has been named chairperson.

  4. World Economic Forum: Cyber-Attacks Third Most Likely Global Risk in 2018

    World Economic Forum to launch new global center for cybersecurity next week

  5. Alleged Leakedsource Admin Arrested in Canada

    Man charged with trafficking in identity data

  6. Oracle Patches Spectre Flaw in x86 Servers

    January Critical Patch Update contains 237 new fixes

  7. Only Half of UK Firms Have Cloud Security Policy

    Gemalto study finds awareness, visibility and controls are sorely lacking

  8. Meltdown, Spectre Patching Lags Thanks to AV Incompatibility

    A Barkly survey found that at half of survey organizations, less than 25% of machines have received the update.

  9. Man Running 'Product Testing' Service for Malware Made Thousands

    A UK man has confessed to running a 'product-testing' service that let hackers determine whether their malicious tools could beat antivirus scanners.

  10. Spurred by Bitcoin Appreciation, Financially Motivated Attacks Surge

    50% of surveyed companies have experienced a cyber-attack motivated by ransom in the past year.

  11. New Mirai Variant Targets Billions of ARC-Based Endpoints

    Okiru could be another wake-up call for IoT security

  12. Ransomware Forces Indiana Doctors to Use Pen and Paper

    Hancock Health back online after network outage

  13. Fraud Doubles in Two Years to Hit 700m Attempts

    Account creation is most popular as scammers use bots to test identities

  14. Kremlin-Linked Hackers Target Senate Ahead of Mid-Terms

    Trend Micro spots new phishing sites

  15. Phishers Push Malware Disguised as Meltdown Fix

    German authorities warn users of fake HTTPS site

  16. Let's Encrypt Flaw Allowed Hackers to Hijack Certificates

    Internet Security Research Group moves fast to disable TLS-SNI-01 challenge

  17. South Korea Considers a Bitcoin Ban, Sparking Outrage

    The justice minister said the government was preparing legislation to halt the trading of Bitcoin.

  18. Malware Serves Up Porn Ads in Kids' Apps

    AdultSwine has been found hiding in around 60 game apps on Google Play, which have been downloaded between 3 million and 7 million times.

  19. Researchers: How to Detect Drones That Spy

    Researchers have pioneered a technique to detect whether a drone camera is illicitly capturing video.

  20. House Votes to Renew Mass Surveillance Law FISA

    Privacy campaigners claim it could expand NSA’s snooping powers

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