Infosecurity News
Spammers Exposed After Backup Error Reveals 1.4 Billion Email Addresses
River City Media used huge database to send over one billion spam emails every day, researchers discover
Consumer Reports Debuts Impartial Privacy Standard
It can be used by businesses to measure the privacy and security of products, apps and services.
Grand Theft Auto Creator Launches Bug Bounty
The public launch comes after paying out $85K+ in private bounties in the last 9 months.
HackerOne Offers Free Bounty Programs for Open Source
In the wake of high-profile open-source flaws like Heartbleed and Poodle, there’s an awareness that most of the tools and technology that we use every day run on open-source platforms.
One Million Stolen Gmail & Yahoo Accounts for Sale on Dark Web
The accounts include names, emails and plain text passwords harvested from a variety of infamous data breaches
#GartnerIAM: Tackle GDPR Compliance with Risk Management
Gartner claims that despite low take up, GDPR compliance is not a lost cause
Nurse Fined After Admitting to Accessing Patient Records
Nurse Elaine Lewis was dismissed from role after admitting breaching the Data Protection Act
Businesses Blame DDoS Attacks on Rival Companies
Kaspersky Lab research suggests companies blame competitors for DDoS attacks rather than disgruntled employees or political activists
Hypocrisy Alert: Veep Pence Used AOL Account for State Business
Webmail account was even hacked last year
Cybersecurity Leader Howard Schmidt Remembered
News appeared on Thursday 2 March that Howard Schmidt had passed away following a long battle with cancer
Chinese VoIP Kit Contains Backdoor, Warn Researchers
Shenzhen-based DBL Technology patched but did not fix issue
Amazon Outage Caused by Simple Input Error
Major sites were affected for hours on Tuesday
Privacy Issue Discovered in Telegram Messaging App
Researchers from Fidelis Cybersecurity have unearthed an “interesting security issue” involving the popular messaging app Telegram
Robot Flaws: Experts Warn Lives are at Risk
IOActive reveals security vulnerabilities in multiple systems
IISP Apply to Privy Council for Information Security Royal Charter
The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) has officially applied to the privy council for a Royal Charter
Research: Shamoon Attackers Targeted Specific Victims
Attackers suspected of being part of a much larger operation
Database Ransomware Attackers Migrate to MySQL
Latest campaign an 'evolution' from MongoDB attacks
CloudPets Breached and Kids’ Voice Messages Exposed
Another connected toy platform found to have insufficient security
Japan-Centric APT Campaign Targets Government
The hackers believed to be behind the election-season hacking in the United States may have now set their sights on Japan.
Boeing Employee Exposes Colleagues’ Data in Privacy Snafu
Insider sent spreadsheet to his wife
