Infosecurity News
Three Breach Hit 133,000 Customers
CEO confirms incident last week
BlackNurse DDoS Takes Just One Laptop to Nix a Network
The offensive is capable of taking down networks. In fact, an average laptop can produce about a 180Mbps DDoS attack.
Qualcomm Launches Bug Bounty for Mobile Processors
The program offers up to $15,000 for vulnerabilities found in the Qualcomm Snapdragon family of mobile processors.
Android Vulnerability Affects 2.8 Million Devices
The flaw makes phones vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, allowing arbitrary commands as a privileged user.
Three Arrested After Suspected Insider Breach at Three
UK operator under fire after men intercept upgrade devices
IT Decentralization Has Deep Security Impact
Move to the cloud creates a lack of clear ownership and responsibility for various mission-critical IT functions.
NatWest Implements Behavioral Biometrics for Online Banking
Authentication uses more than 500 points of behavior such as hand-eye coordination, pressure, hand tremors and scrolling.
FIFA Hackers Steal $16 Million from EA
Malware racked up false virtual in-game currency that they exchanged on the black market for US dollars.
Snoopers’ Charter Passes Lords Test
Controversial Investigatory Powers Bill will become law
Consumers Blame Companies, Not Password Mistakes, for Compromises
A third of US consumers put the value of their online life at somewhere between $100,000 to priceless.
Ransomware Threatens to Expose Child Pornography
New variant finds real evidence of wrongdoing to nail victims
#ISSEconf: Shifting to Self-learning, Self-defending Networks
Speaking at ISSE Conference 2016 in Paris, Emily Orton, director of Darktrace, argued that traditional security approaches alone are simply now not enough to defend against evolving cyber-threats, instead advocating the use of machine-based learning to aid in the battle against cybercrime
Manufacturing's IoT Adoption Opens Up Big Security Holes
A full 40% of respondents said they do not incorporate IoT and connected products into the company’s broader incident response plan.
Adult Websites Breached as 412 Million Users Exposed
FriendFinder Network owns AdultFriendFinder, Penthouse and more
Recruitment Firm Blames Capgemini over Client Data Breach
Global consultancy Capgemini has reportedly leaked data relating to recruitment firm Michael Page by publishing it on a publicly accessible development server.
Claims Yahoo Was Aware of Breach in 2014
The major breach at Yahoo was known about for at least two years, according to a recent Securities and Exchange filing
Russian Hackers Target NGOs with Clinton Foundation Emails
Kremlin-linked group quick to use US elections to spear phish targets
Tesco Bank Attack Linked to Trojan Targeting Other UK Lenders
Several others are on the malware’s hit list
NYU's High-School Hackathon Uncovers Next-Gen Brilliance
13th annual NYU Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) games kick off in Brooklyn.
UK’s Finest Codebreakers Battle the Best in Europe
European Cyber Security Challenge runs all this week
