Apple omits ‘warrant canary’ from latest transparency report, suggesting...
A warrant canary stating that Apple has “never received an order” under the Patriot Act has been removed from its latest report. That suggests such demands have been made.
View ArticleHome Depot: 56 million payment cards affected by cyberattack
Home Depot said it has added better encryption software and replaced 85,000 PIN pads following the attack that started in April.
View ArticleCVE-ID Vulnerability Numbering Format Change Could Challenge Vendors Who...
Software vulnerabilities have continued to grow, so perhaps it was inevitable that one day The MITRE Corporation would have to make a change to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Identifiers...
View ArticleHome Depot: Breach cost $62M, exposed 56M cards
The Home Depot Inc.’s Sept. 2 data breach will cost the company $62 million and is estimated to have put payment card information at risk for 56 million payment debt/credit cards.
View ArticleGoogle to Boost Android Encryption, Joining Apple
SAN FRANCISCO – Google said Thursday it would beef up encryption of its mobile operating system, so that it would not hold “keys” to devices even if it is served with a warrant.
View ArticleHome Depot Says 56 Million Payment Cards Compromised in Data Breach
Home Depot said on Thursday a data breach affecting its stores across the United States and Canada is estimated to have exposed 56 million customer payment cards between April and September 2014.
View ArticleAndroid L will offer default encryption just like iOS 8
Google’s upcoming Android L operating system will offer default data encryption, mirroring the functionality in Apple’s iOS 8 and the new iPhone 6 range.
View ArticleAnonymous Romania Hacks Local Police Website
The home page of the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police was hacked by the local Anonymous group, who posted a message on the News Section. “Greetings gentlemen. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We...
View ArticleZero Day Weekly: Apple’s big fix, Home Depot, Salesforce flags Dyre Trojan
A collection of notable security news items for the week ending September 19, 2014. Covers enterprise, controversies, reports and more.
View ArticleChinese Hackers Breached U.S. Military Contractors 20 Times in One Year
According to a recent Senate report, the U.S. Transportation Command was aware of only two of those breaches.
View ArticlePBS’“NOVA: Rise of the Hackers” explores modern code-crackers
Cyber-security experts Liam O Murchu, left, and Eric Chien at Symantec. Their job is to investigate the viruses that pop up on your computer.
View ArticleApple Fixes Numerous Vulnerabilities With Release of Mac OS X 10.9.5
Apple has released updates for several of its products and, in addition to new features and functionality fixes, the company has also addressed several security issues that expose users to...
View ArticleAs open enrollment nears, Obamacare website still isn’t totally safe
Healthcare.gov still isn’t as safe as it should be, and the annual open enrollment period starts again in just two months. To be clear: Hackers haven’t stolen sensitive data from the Obamacare site.
View ArticleMicrosoft reorgs its Trustworthy Computing group; cuts some staff
The fallout from Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs is continuing, with a reorg and job cuts affecting the company’s Trustworthy Computing group.
View ArticleThe Apple phish are flying
The news of the new iPhones and the leaked celebrity photos create an atmosphere in which users might act rashly when presented with a message purportedly from Apple.
View ArticleTrue White-Knuckled Stories of Metrics in Action: The Faculty Systems
A friend of mine is a security manager at a university. He keeps metrics for fun, mostly, he says, to torture people with. His project, over the years I’ve known him, is to constantly improve the...
View ArticlePopular English-Language Israeli News Sites Hit by Malvertising Attack
Visitors of two well-known English-language news websites based in Israel could have had their computers infected with malware after cybercriminals managed to hijack the digital ads being served on the...
View ArticleInformation Security Training Master Class: Winning the Battle…
In Part One of this series, I laid out data breach statistics that were at best startling, and at worst downright terrifying. Thankfully, a large percentage of the data breaches discussed were...
View ArticleVic government protects personal data with new privacy law
The Victorian government has replaced the Information Privacy Act with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 to address the protection levels of personal information collected and used by public...
View ArticleAndroid L Will Bestow Automatic Encryption to Your Device, Making Data...
In the wake of Apple’s announcement later this week when the company said upgrading to its latest operating system, iOS 8, will make it impossible for police forces to access information from most...
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