Archive - February 2019

EFF condemns financial think-tank for promoting ‘weaker’ crypto 28 February 2019 at 16:45 UTC Bug Bounty Radar // Feb 2019 28 February 2019 at 15:05 UTC US man pleads guilty to running DDoS-for-hire websites 28 February 2019 at 14:09 UTC Bank of Valletta website goes offline for second time this month 28 February 2019 at 12:08 UTC Malvertising fiends using polyglot exploits in real-world attacks 27 February 2019 at 16:00 UTC Mozilla and FastMail join calls to overhaul Australia’s anti-encryption law 27 February 2019 at 14:51 UTC Data breach at UConn Health affects 326k patients 27 February 2019 at 11:22 UTC Full DNSSEC adoption needed to repel state-sponsored DNS hijackers – ICANN 26 February 2019 at 12:29 UTC Apple’s plan to merge macOS and iOS app development could have security benefits 25 February 2019 at 15:42 UTC SQLmap plans to prototype GUI support 25 February 2019 at 15:08 UTC WordPress 5.1 launches with Site Health security feature 25 February 2019 at 12:15 UTC Australian heart clinic disrupted by ransomware attack 22 February 2019 at 18:00 UTC ‘Arguing against password managers is like criticizing seat belts because they might injure passengers’ 22 February 2019 at 17:00 UTC Crooks using compromised banks as a stepping stone to hack other financial institutions 22 February 2019 at 11:32 UTC ‘Everybody has sharpened up’ – Australia’s breach notification law, one year on 21 February 2019 at 16:08 UTC Singapore launches Cyber Defence School 21 February 2019 at 14:28 UTC Huawei told to shape up if it wants a slice of UK’s 5G rollout 21 February 2019 at 12:55 UTC Drupal patches critical RCE bug in out-of-band update 21 February 2019 at 10:54 UTC Edge secretly disables security mechanism on Facebook 20 February 2019 at 15:50 UTC Deep dive into Electrum hack reveals 70% of network was controlled by attackers 20 February 2019 at 13:28 UTC New global standard aims to set a baseline for IoT security 20 February 2019 at 08:27 UTC Alleged British hacker Lauri Love denied appeal to return computers 19 February 2019 at 11:41 UTC Healthcare hotline: Millions of medical advice calls exposed in Sweden 19 February 2019 at 11:03 UTC Patched WordPress plugin still susceptible to attacks 18 February 2019 at 15:30 UTC UK plans to ‘manage’ Huawei 5G security risk 18 February 2019 at 13:40 UTC Coinmama crypto-exchange breach affects 450k users 18 February 2019 at 11:54 UTC US healthcare data breach settlements topped $28m in 2018 15 February 2019 at 17:54 UTC ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, brand new friends may be socially engineering you’ 15 February 2019 at 16:54 UTC Intel SGX safeguard pwned to plant ‘super stealthy malware’ 14 February 2019 at 17:02 UTC Shlay it ain’t so: New macOS malware variant discovered 14 February 2019 at 15:52 UTC Bridging the skills gap: (ISC)² launches Professional Development Institute 14 February 2019 at 14:50 UTC Poisoned arrows: Cyber-crooks look to spoil Valentine’s Day cheer 14 February 2019 at 13:24 UTC French security association CLUSIF flags data leak 13 February 2019 at 15:32 UTC Bumper Patch Tuesday offers relief from multiple critical flaws 13 February 2019 at 12:01 UTC Microsoft charts progress in out-boxing security vulnerabilities 12 February 2019 at 16:01 UTC Knowledge is power? Businesses struggling to act on threat intel 12 February 2019 at 15:05 UTC Email provider VFEmail’s US servers wiped 12 February 2019 at 12:11 UTC Switzerland launches e-voting bug bounty 11 February 2019 at 12:57 UTC South Africa welcomes new cybercrime legislation 08 February 2019 at 17:03 UTC Google open sources cloud-based fuzzing tool 08 February 2019 at 16:28 UTC ‘Here’s the evidence that cryptocurrencies are extremely secure… the passwords have gone to the grave’ 08 February 2019 at 16:02 UTC US ammo supplier breach exposed customer credit card data 08 February 2019 at 14:10 UTC Nest wasn’t hacked – but change your passwords 07 February 2019 at 16:30 UTC Chinese cyber spies ‘target international businesses to pilfer trade secrets’ 07 February 2019 at 15:11 UTC Pwned in Translation: Criminals go to increasing lengths to mask phishing URLs 07 February 2019 at 12:32 UTC Washington state proposes privacy legislation as data debate heats up 06 February 2019 at 16:48 UTC New Chrome extension detects breached passwords 06 February 2019 at 15:40 UTC U2F nowhere near ready for prime time 06 February 2019 at 13:50 UTC South African electricity provider said to be exposing customer details online 06 February 2019 at 12:57 UTC Nearly 60,000 data breaches reported under GDPR 06 February 2019 at 12:03 UTC Malware takes control of vulnerable Linux servers to mine crypto-cash 05 February 2019 at 16:46 UTC LibreOffice patches RCE flaw – Apache OpenOffice doesn’t 05 February 2019 at 15:31 UTC Tracking Anatova: Malwarebytes discovers new version of DASH-hungry ransomware 04 February 2019 at 15:21 UTC Restaurant chain Huddle House hit by POS malware attack 04 February 2019 at 11:36 UTC Hungarian ‘ethical hacker’ faces eight-year prison sentence 01 February 2019 at 16:17 UTC ‘I look forward to hiring the 14-year-old who found the FaceTime bug’ 01 February 2019 at 15:13 UTC NIST shortlists submissions for post-quantum crypto competition 01 February 2019 at 12:35 UTC