Archive - July 2018

Risky business: Navigating the murky waters of cyber insurance 31 July 2018 at 13:28 UTC Australian data breach scheme proves a tentative success 31 July 2018 at 10:42 UTC Dixons Carphone admits breach affected 9m more customers 31 July 2018 at 09:47 UTC SingHealth breach: More evidence points to nation-state actor 30 July 2018 at 13:17 UTC ‘Happy Chrome 68 day!’ 27 July 2018 at 13:34 UTC Chinese shipping company Cosco halts operations after ransomware attack 27 July 2018 at 11:30 UTC Everyone’s responsibility: Why security is a developer’s problem too 26 July 2018 at 13:04 UTC New Zero Day Initiative program offers $1.5m for server-side product flaws 26 July 2018 at 08:55 UTC ISP ‘hijack factory’ booted offline for selling stolen traffic routes 25 July 2018 at 13:12 UTC Major jobs website left sensitive client data exposed for months 24 July 2018 at 13:59 UTC US tightens cybersecurity regulation for electric utilities 24 July 2018 at 12:00 UTC Summer of 68: Chrome now flagging all HTTP sites as ‘insecure’ 24 July 2018 at 10:18 UTC Emotet evolves to deliver new malware strains globally 23 July 2018 at 13:44 UTC Singapore healthcare database hit by ‘major cyber-attack’ 20 July 2018 at 15:00 UTC ‘Where US and Russian officials chummily trade info’ 20 July 2018 at 13:18 UTC Security missives from the road 20 July 2018 at 08:59 UTC Free-to-play games are a hotspot for money laundering 19 July 2018 at 15:30 UTC XSS protection disappears from Microsoft Edge 19 July 2018 at 14:50 UTC Half of US retailers suffer data breach in 2018 19 July 2018 at 11:22 UTC Public money, public code? FSFE spearheads open source initiative 18 July 2018 at 14:45 UTC When browser extensions go rogue 18 July 2018 at 13:45 UTC PrestaShop bug could give attackers ‘complete control’ over eCommerce sites 18 July 2018 at 10:33 UTC Blood bank LabCorp has system blackout following data breach fears 17 July 2018 at 11:30 UTC New tool helps you find open Amazon S3 buckets 16 July 2018 at 15:38 UTC Compromised JavaScript package attempted to scoop up NPM users’ credentials 16 July 2018 at 14:00 UTC Google Chrome steps up fight against Spectre attacks 16 July 2018 at 11:02 UTC Scott Helme on Report URI: ‘We are now in a position where we can make observations on the state of security’ 13 July 2018 at 16:15 UTC ‘Facebook has not been sufficiently transparent’ 13 July 2018 at 15:00 UTC A seat at the table: OWASP champions women in cybersecurity 13 July 2018 at 14:04 UTC Invoking the PowerThIEf: COM abused to harvest IE user credentials 12 July 2018 at 16:17 UTC Brave adopts Tor for anonymous browsing 11 July 2018 at 15:14 UTC Typeform breach highlights need for big biz to audit suppliers 11 July 2018 at 10:11 UTC Breaking into information security at SteelCon 2018 11 July 2018 at 08:19 UTC Web provider goes into ‘crisis mode‘ following cyber-attack 10 July 2018 at 12:00 UTC Fears on the front line: Hospitals still ‘low-hanging fruit’ for cybercriminals 10 July 2018 at 10:55 UTC Risky business: Industry moves to monitor automated security systems 10 July 2018 at 10:30 UTC Timehop tightens security after major data breach 09 July 2018 at 11:16 UTC Torservers, Tails, and Riseup: European donors’ details ‘now in the hands of the German police’ 06 July 2018 at 16:00 UTC An Inspector calls: New tool exposes hidden vulnerabilities in browser objects 06 July 2018 at 14:30 UTC ‘Play spy games, win spy prizes’ 06 July 2018 at 13:17 UTC Why it’s time to shed passwords for 2FA and beyond 05 July 2018 at 12:54 UTC Uganda confirms state surveillance ambition with new social media tax 05 July 2018 at 10:12 UTC Survive the storm: Fortnite malware downloaded 78,000 times 04 July 2018 at 13:56 UTC WPA3 a ‘missed opportunity’, says security expert Mathy Vanhoef 04 July 2018 at 11:42 UTC Stylish browser is tracking users’ internet history 03 July 2018 at 13:48 UTC ‘You don’t have to be a math whizz to be in technology’ 03 July 2018 at 11:38 UTC Symantec launches free VPNFilter checking tool 02 July 2018 at 14:15 UTC Data link: Researchers reveal new security weaknesses in LTE 02 July 2018 at 13:18 UTC