Archive - February 2020

RSA Conference: Google improves threat detection over Gmail 28 February 2020 at 14:01 UTC Bug Bounty Radar // The latest bug bounty programs for February 2020 28 February 2020 at 11:01 UTC RSA Conference: Latin American cybercrime ecosystem exposed 27 February 2020 at 16:46 UTC Microsoft Exchange Server admins urged to treat crypto key flaw as ‘critical’ 27 February 2020 at 15:32 UTC The latest government data breaches in 2020/2021 27 February 2020 at 10:54 UTC Magento security: Exploit released for payment plugin vulnerability 26 February 2020 at 16:44 UTC Knowledge transfer: Casey Ellis on IoT bug bounties and live hacking events 26 February 2020 at 15:45 UTC Phishing attack: US insurance company reports data security incident 26 February 2020 at 12:40 UTC Cybermalveillance: French cyber awareness site to launch public bug bounty program 25 February 2020 at 16:10 UTC SwigCast, Episode 5: EDUCATION 25 February 2020 at 15:01 UTC MyBB security analysis: Open source community helped squash hundreds of bugs 25 February 2020 at 13:22 UTC Let’s Encrypt deploys new domain validation technology to mitigate BGP hijacking risks 25 February 2020 at 11:02 UTC Ireland’s privacy regulator handled 6,000 data breach reports in 2019 24 February 2020 at 15:44 UTC Bug bounty earnings soar, but 63% of ethical hackers have withheld security flaws – study 24 February 2020 at 14:11 UTC Canada data breach: 360,000 teachers in Quebec potentially impacted 24 February 2020 at 11:53 UTC Swiss gov’t issues fresh ransomware warning to SMEs 21 February 2020 at 15:38 UTC #SocialSec – Hot takes on this week’s biggest cybersecurity news (Feb 21) 21 February 2020 at 14:45 UTC Crypto wallet imToken launches TokenCoreX bug bounty 21 February 2020 at 11:56 UTC Telco Security Alliance ramps up threat detection capabilities with global intel-sharing initiative 20 February 2020 at 16:21 UTC Mastercard to lead security cooperation in Europe with new cyber resilience facility 20 February 2020 at 14:31 UTC Cybercriminals hammer APIs in a bid to bypass stronger authentication – report 20 February 2020 at 12:23 UTC ProtonVPN brand abused to spread AZORult Trojan in latest security software scam 19 February 2020 at 16:31 UTC CoTURN patches denial-of-service and memory corruption flaws 19 February 2020 at 15:23 UTC Browser slurping takes backseat with Chrome removal of malicious extensions 19 February 2020 at 12:49 UTC Phishing scammers pose as World Health Organization to exploit coronavirus fears 18 February 2020 at 16:12 UTC Meet the bug bounty platform putting community into crowdsourced security 18 February 2020 at 15:04 UTC Security flaws belatedly fixed in open source SuiteCRM software 18 February 2020 at 13:38 UTC Web cache deception named top web hacking technique of 2019 18 February 2020 at 11:34 UTC Russian Instagram users targeted with fake news phishing scam 17 February 2020 at 14:57 UTC Gold-nuggeting: Machine learning tool simplifies target discovery for pen testers 17 February 2020 at 12:44 UTC Ohio man arrested over darknet bitcoin laundering operation 14 February 2020 at 16:38 UTC #SocialSec – Hot takes on this week’s biggest cybersecurity news (Feb 14) 14 February 2020 at 14:38 UTC Black Hat Asia 2020 postponed due to coronavirus epidemic 14 February 2020 at 13:35 UTC France to open new cyber campus next year 14 February 2020 at 10:58 UTC Oh crumbs – Security flaw in WordPress GDPR cookie plugin left 700,000 sites open to abuse 13 February 2020 at 15:37 UTC Inside J-CAT – Europol’s Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce 13 February 2020 at 14:40 UTC SAMM v2 – OWASP releases revamped security assurance framework 13 February 2020 at 11:19 UTC Generate data breach impacts 26,000 New Zealand residents 12 February 2020 at 16:26 UTC Low-hanging fruit: Why the US marijuana industry is a privacy disaster waiting to happen 12 February 2020 at 15:04 UTC Blind regex injection: Theoretical exploit offers new means of forcing web apps to spill secrets 12 February 2020 at 11:22 UTC Cryptocurrency exchange Altsbit to ‘terminate’ following mass theft of funds 11 February 2020 at 16:28 UTC Cybercriminals targeting enterprises with increasingly complex malware 11 February 2020 at 14:03 UTC SymTCP – a new tool for circumventing deep packet inspections 11 February 2020 at 12:19 UTC Wisconsin university launches online cybersecurity course 10 February 2020 at 16:07 UTC Chrome to start blocking insecure HTTP file downloads on HTTPS sites 10 February 2020 at 14:26 UTC India data breach: 460,000 credit card details put up for sale on dark web 10 February 2020 at 10:38 UTC Ransomware attack: Maastricht University pays out $220,000 to cybercrooks 07 February 2020 at 16:05 UTC #SocialSec – Hot takes on this week’s biggest cybersecurity news (Feb 7) 07 February 2020 at 12:28 UTC Trusted access: Privacy advocates step up the fight against stalkerware 06 February 2020 at 17:12 UTC XSS vulnerability patched in TinyMCE 06 February 2020 at 16:00 UTC Git developers release test code to transition away from aging SHA-1 hashing 06 February 2020 at 14:22 UTC What is steganography? A complete guide to the ancient art of concealing messages 06 February 2020 at 10:42 UTC Alert overload – CREST report highlights growing problem of burnout in cybersecurity industry 05 February 2020 at 15:14 UTC F-Secure issues fix for Internet Gatekeeper heap overflow vulnerability 05 February 2020 at 13:51 UTC TLS 1.0/1.1 end-of-life countdown heads into the danger zone 04 February 2020 at 16:45 UTC Chrome SameSite cookie change expected to result in ‘modest’ global website breakage 04 February 2020 at 16:04 UTC US man who broke into Nintendo’s systems to steal games and console secrets pleads guilty 04 February 2020 at 13:05 UTC Spotlight shone on Microsoft Azure vulnerability 03 February 2020 at 17:30 UTC Magento fixes trio of critical security flaws 03 February 2020 at 15:45 UTC Maryland poised to criminalize ransomware possession 03 February 2020 at 12:45 UTC