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Archive - December 2018

National Cyber Security Alliance commits to user education drive 31 December 2018 at 14:00 UTC OWASP: Weak passwords are biggest threat to IoT security 31 December 2018 at 12:30 UTC Swig Security Review 2018: Part II 31 December 2018 at 11:00 UTC ‘I too pull my instructions from internet memes’ 28 December 2018 at 15:42 UTC Hack exposes identities of 1,000 North Korean defectors 28 December 2018 at 12:09 UTC Swig Security Review 2018: Part I 28 December 2018 at 11:00 UTC Home surveillance system caught leaking video feeds 27 December 2018 at 14:01 UTC The year in #StupidSecurity 27 December 2018 at 10:00 UTC Singapore gov’t launches new bug bounty program 24 December 2018 at 15:50 UTC ENISA granted fresh powers following WannaCry ‘wake-up call’ 24 December 2018 at 10:27 UTC ‘So you’re telling me Facebook didn’t treat private messages as private? Say it isn’t so’ 21 December 2018 at 17:16 UTC GDPR vs. CCPA: Which goes further to protect personal data? 21 December 2018 at 13:51 UTC ‘It’s our mission to bring a secure internet to everyone, everywhere’ 20 December 2018 at 13:47 UTC Microsoft issues emergency patch for Internet Explorer RCE bug 20 December 2018 at 12:23 UTC Latest NIST project aims to secure ‘telehealth’ ecosystem 20 December 2018 at 09:19 UTC ‘Middle-aged’ DNS tech still has legs to kick on 19 December 2018 at 13:50 UTC Ransomware exposed 16k medical records at Georgia practice 19 December 2018 at 11:24 UTC Christmas comes early for Capture the Flag champions 18 December 2018 at 15:26 UTC The US sets its sights on a federal privacy law 18 December 2018 at 13:31 UTC SQLite vulnerability could lead to remote code execution 17 December 2018 at 15:30 UTC State-backed hackers switch to inferior tactics to avoid being fingered for attacks 17 December 2018 at 14:08 UTC Facebook Bug Bounty program pays out over $1m in 2018 14 December 2018 at 17:05 UTC ‘Dear Bloomberg, you still owe everyone a retraction, explanation or some proof’ 14 December 2018 at 16:12 UTC Virgin Media patches router modem backdoor flaws 14 December 2018 at 12:55 UTC Jenkins releases patch for critical pipeline security flaws 13 December 2018 at 16:12 UTC Microsoft squashes account takeover bug 13 December 2018 at 14:25 UTC Google takes the oath on data collection, use, and filtering practices 12 December 2018 at 14:57 UTC AccuDoc data incident highlights ‘growing calamity’ of third-party breaches 12 December 2018 at 12:46 UTC Google+ hit with second vulnerability affecting 52 million 11 December 2018 at 12:05 UTC CAs exposed as a weak point in web crypto 10 December 2018 at 16:03 UTC Russian doll steganography allows users to mask covert drives 10 December 2018 at 14:20 UTC The best hacks from Black Hat Europe 2018 07 December 2018 at 17:26 UTC Threat intelligence marketplace aims to ease skills shortage 07 December 2018 at 17:15 UTC ‘We take your security and privacy. Seriously’ 07 December 2018 at 16:02 UTC Microsoft confirms plans to put Chromium under the hood of Edge 07 December 2018 at 14:40 UTC Biggest casualty of a breach is security jobs, not share price 06 December 2018 at 15:47 UTC WordPress plugin flaw leaves 1m sites open to remote takeover 06 December 2018 at 14:06 UTC IoT protocols are leaking data like sieves 06 December 2018 at 10:46 UTC Battery charger hack offers covert way to spy on mobile devices 05 December 2018 at 16:03 UTC ‘Cyber-attacks have become the new normality’ 05 December 2018 at 15:05 UTC Google steps up the fight against ‘abusive’ ads with Chrome 71 05 December 2018 at 13:03 UTC Ransomware brokers step into the middle of malware trades 04 December 2018 at 17:05 UTC Critical Kubernetes privilege escalation bug patched 04 December 2018 at 15:10 UTC GreyEnergy threat actors go to great lengths to hide malware campaign 04 December 2018 at 13:31 UTC Quora, was my data compromised? A: Yes 04 December 2018 at 11:58 UTC Cybersecurity still a major issue for non-profits 03 December 2018 at 14:05 UTC Magecart blamed for Sotheby’s Home breach 03 December 2018 at 10:55 UTC