Archive - April 2018

Thousands of ICO investors have their information exposed 30 April 2018 at 14:30 UTC Saks breach undiscovered for nine months 30 April 2018 at 13:36 UTC Zippy’s restaurant chain suffers huge data breach 30 April 2018 at 11:50 UTC Sterling effort: Criminals look to profit from TSB’s IT meltdown 30 April 2018 at 11:03 UTC Global malware campaign attributed to North Korean cyber group 27 April 2018 at 16:00 UTC Special delivery: Rubella crimeware kit available for just $120 27 April 2018 at 15:25 UTC ‘They had no idea they were at the forefront of a movement’ 27 April 2018 at 14:15 UTC ‘TSB customers should vote with their feet, or banks will never change’ 27 April 2018 at 13:43 UTC Alabama is final US state to enact data breach laws 27 April 2018 at 08:19 UTC From Hikvision to Hackvision: Critical vulnerability patched in CCTV cloud service 26 April 2018 at 13:49 UTC Overwhelming amount of UK businesses still not practicing cyber safety 26 April 2018 at 12:23 UTC Drupal patches another critical RCE flaw 26 April 2018 at 11:24 UTC Ether heist claims $152k through DNS vulnerability 25 April 2018 at 15:20 UTC DDoS-for-hire site taken down in global investigation 25 April 2018 at 14:45 UTC GDPR: How will it affect you and your business? 25 April 2018 at 11:14 UTC Are you watching closely? ‘Negligent insiders’ are root cause of most data incidents 25 April 2018 at 11:11 UTC LinkedIn patches leaky AutoFill feature 24 April 2018 at 13:35 UTC Careem taxi app discloses January data breach 24 April 2018 at 11:17 UTC Take the Oath: Yahoo parent company rolls out unified bug bounty program 24 April 2018 at 10:27 UTC NCSC investigates extent of cryptojacking across UK sites 24 April 2018 at 08:37 UTC FDA releases safety standards for medical device security 23 April 2018 at 16:12 UTC IBM launches open source toolkit for AI 23 April 2018 at 13:23 UTC Atlanta slowly recovers from ransomware attack 23 April 2018 at 12:47 UTC Tipping the balance: SunTrust customers alerted to suspected data theft 23 April 2018 at 10:06 UTC Deliveroo launches public bug bounty program 20 April 2018 at 15:00 UTC ‘If you attended RSA and see your first name there – sorry!’ 20 April 2018 at 14:36 UTC Yahoo hacker faces eight years in jail 20 April 2018 at 10:24 UTC Polishing Chrome: VPNs rush to patch leaky extensions 20 April 2018 at 09:00 UTC Hack back: Attackers fall for Ethereum booby trap 19 April 2018 at 12:47 UTC Europol welcomes Norway and Switzerland to cybercrime taskforce 19 April 2018 at 12:00 UTC Android users in Asia targeted by new mobile malware 19 April 2018 at 11:00 UTC Acid test: open source vs. closed 19 April 2018 at 08:06 UTC Commonwealth declares cyber a top priority 18 April 2018 at 14:40 UTC ‘We are making huge investments in security’ 18 April 2018 at 11:24 UTC The Black Report: It’s even easier for hackers to breach your company 18 April 2018 at 10:57 UTC Inogen data breach may impact 30k patients 18 April 2018 at 09:39 UTC TaskRabbit temporarily shuts down app after ‘cybersecurity incident’ 17 April 2018 at 14:28 UTC Transatlantic fight back: US and UK say billions of devices targeted by Russian state-sponsored actors 17 April 2018 at 13:55 UTC Gmail and Cisco add new email security features 17 April 2018 at 13:26 UTC New Zealand looks to refresh cybersecurity strategy 17 April 2018 at 10:31 UTC Microsoft’s lethargic Tuesday: Security patch timeline comes under scrutiny 17 April 2018 at 08:33 UTC Texas healthcare group issues data breach warning 16 April 2018 at 14:19 UTC Don’t shoot the messenger: Encryption unfairly thrashed for Facebook’s mistake 16 April 2018 at 13:01 UTC Global telco leaders form cybersecurity alliance 16 April 2018 at 11:22 UTC ‘Hacking Vevo was just fun’ 13 April 2018 at 15:17 UTC Alexa, how secure is my home? UK looks to implement IoT consumer standards 13 April 2018 at 13:51 UTC CyberArk password manager bug allowed remote control execution 13 April 2018 at 09:58 UTC GCHQ reveals details of cyber offensive against ISIS 12 April 2018 at 16:55 UTC Lights out: Britain vows crackdown on the dark web 12 April 2018 at 15:09 UTC ‘There will be another WannaCry’ 12 April 2018 at 13:04 UTC Talking cyber to the board: ‘Above all, they don’t want jargon’ 11 April 2018 at 15:19 UTC More than 60 data breaches in first six weeks of Australian disclosure scheme 11 April 2018 at 13:32 UTC Redressing the balance: Diversity challenges pulled into focus at this year’s Cyber UK expo 11 April 2018 at 12:18 UTC Operational growth: UK gov’t launches two new cybersecurity centers 11 April 2018 at 10:35 UTC Google-owned antivirus platform updated 10 April 2018 at 16:28 UTC ‘The technology is broken, not the people’ 10 April 2018 at 16:26 UTC Google patches flaw that could influence search results 10 April 2018 at 15:35 UTC 200,000 Cisco network switches brought down in global cyber-attack 10 April 2018 at 11:08 UTC Lingering threat: Security is as much a ‘people’ issue as it is a technology issue 10 April 2018 at 11:03 UTC Store and rotate: AWS adds more security to its cloud services 09 April 2018 at 14:48 UTC Possession of ransomware now illegal in Michigan 09 April 2018 at 13:39 UTC Finnish business owners warned over data breach 09 April 2018 at 12:34 UTC Avast promises security-led future with new web browser 06 April 2018 at 15:27 UTC Trove of sensitive files freely available online 06 April 2018 at 15:26 UTC ‘No, they don't take security seriously’ – how not to handle a data breach 06 April 2018 at 13:25 UTC Online shops fall prey to brute-force attacks by cybercriminals 06 April 2018 at 10:49 UTC More US gas pipelines forced offline 06 April 2018 at 07:50 UTC Delta Air Lines is latest data breach victim 05 April 2018 at 14:35 UTC White House vulnerable to phishing attack 05 April 2018 at 14:09 UTC Intel admits it won’t patch some chips for Spectre flaw 05 April 2018 at 08:53 UTC Cloudflare brings competition to Google with release of new public DNS service 04 April 2018 at 16:19 UTC Google Chrome bans cryptomining extensions 04 April 2018 at 14:09 UTC Back to school: How universities can learn from the Iran cyber-attack 04 April 2018 at 10:59 UTC Saks Fifth Avenue breach leaks 5m customers' details 03 April 2018 at 15:18 UTC Georgia passes bill that could criminalize cybersecurity research 03 April 2018 at 14:14 UTC Under Armour data breach affects 150m users after MyFitnessPal leak 03 April 2018 at 12:35 UTC