Secure Boot vulnerability causes Patch Tuesday headache for admins
On a significantly lighter Patch Tuesday than of late, a publicly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Secure Boot security feature looks…
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Hacker ‘PlugwalkJoe’ pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter breach
Joseph James O’Connor, aka ‘PlugwalkJoke,’ has pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrime offenses, including SIM swapping attacks, cyberstalking, computer hacking, and hijacking high-profile accounts on Twitter…
Black Basta ransomware attack to cost Capita over £15m
UK outsourcer and public sector specialist Capita expects to incur “exceptional costs” in the region of £15m to £20m as a result of the March…
Supporting the Source: Why HackerOne is Upgrading its Free Tools for Open Source
Protecting open source is our social responsibility and essential to internet well being. We believe this is important and essential. Open source software powers HackerOne.…
Newly added security tests, September 14, 2017: Selenium Grid
If you don’t have time to read up on the latest vulnerabilities, we’ve got you covered. To help you keep up with the latest developments…
Hackers Deploy Sophisticated Snake Loader Malware Worldwide
The Five Eyes member nations’ cybersecurity and intelligence agencies collaborated to dismantle the infrastructure of the Snake cyber-espionage malware, originally developed by Russia’s FSB, which…
Salt Security Achieves AWS WAF Ready Designation
Today, API security company Salt Security announced it is now an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) Ready Partner. This service helps customers…
Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Intrusion Detection
A few weeks ago, the 32nd edition of RSA, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences, wrapped up in San Francisco. Among the highlights, Kevin…
Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ authorities
The US Justice Department announced the completion of court-authorized operation MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake”…
Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services
A report from the Public Accounts Committee has warned that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is at risk of wasting…
LINE Launches Public Bug Bounty Program: Q&A with Security Engineer Robin Lunde
LINE Corporation is one of the most popular messaging applications in Asia Pacific, serving millions of users in countries including Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and…
How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
Lauren Goode: From what I know about Meredith, she’s well qualified to have this conversation. She spent a lot of time at Google, which is…