US Says Will Work with Germany to Resolve New Spy Row
WASHINGTON – The United States pledged Monday to cool a new spy row with Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel warned reports of involving an alleged German double agent and the CIA could mark a fresh...
View ArticleSecurity checks at Australian airports to remain unchanged
Qantas and Virgin Australia have confirmed they have not received any additional requests from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to enhance security checks on electronic devices for...
View ArticleQ&A: Panda Security Staging A Comeback
New Panda CEO and former IBM security executive Diego Navarrete shares his strategy and insight into turning around the security company that has fallen off the radar screen over the last couple of years.
View ArticleAndroid smartphone reset doesn’t wipe your personal info — including any nude...
Businesses beware — Avast says vast amounts of personal data and photos can be recovered from second-hand Android smartphones even if users have re-set them to factory condition
View ArticleOver 10,000 Individuals Affected by Park Hill School District Data Leak Incident
More than 10,000 former workers and students of the Park Hill School District have been notified by officials that private information about them has been exposed to unauthorized persons.Unlike most...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Critical Patch Tuesday Updates for Internet Explorer, Windows
Microsoft released six security bulletins today for Patch Tuesday, including a critical update for Internet Explorer.
View ArticleUS nabs alleged Russian hacker – and Kremlin cries foul
US Secret Service agents arrested a Russian man indicted in federal court for stealing credit card accounts by hacking into personal and corporate computers yesterday.
View ArticleHotelHippo Website Shut Down Permanently
Hotel booking website HotelHippo has been closed permanently this week, after previously being taken down for maintenance, as a result of a security consultant revealing a myriad of concerning security...
View ArticleSpamhaus Waiting for Charging of Other Stophaus Members
Anti-spam organization Spamhaus applauded the efforts of law enforcement agencies to arrest and charge participants to the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that was directed against...
View ArticleSenate Intelligence Committee approves cybersecurity sharing bill
The bill includes liability protections for individuals and companies that voluntarily choose to share cyberthreat information with the federal government.
View ArticleCyber attack hits guests at Houstonian Hotel
At least 10,000 customers of the Houstonian Hotel, Club Spa have been notified that the hotel’s credit card processing system was breached for six months between last December and June 20. The hotel...
View ArticleMaritime Rows, Cybersecurity Top US-China Talks
BEIJING – China and the US geared early Wednesday for high-stakes talks on a slew of thorny issues, as American officials warned against rising tensions caused by Beijing’s “problematic” claim to...
View ArticleChinese foreign ministry dismisses ‘Deep Panda’ hacking claims
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Hong Lei, today dismissed the latest ‘Deep Panda’ hacking claims by security firm, CrowdStrike, while also taking a swipe at the United States’ own international...
View ArticleBrutPOS Botnet Targets POS Systems With Brute-Force Attacks
Cybercriminals are using thousands of compromised computers to target point-of-sale (PoS) systems from which they can steal payment card information, FireEye reported on Wednesday.
View ArticleOpenDNS Adds Targeted Attack Protection to Umbrella Security Service
OpenDNS has enhanced its cloud-based network security service Umbrella with new capabilities designed to protect organizations against targeted attacks, the company announced on Tuesday.
View ArticleNew Adobe Flash Security Hole Means It’s Time to Update Again
The update applies to Flash 14.0.0.125 or earlier versions on Macs and PCs, meaning users should update to 14.0.0.145.
View ArticleAlabama Lab Technician Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft
Kamarian D. Millender, who worked as a lab technician at a medical facility in Dothan, Alabama, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft on Tuesday, July 8.He used personal information...
View ArticleBrutPOS Botnet Scans for Weakly Protected RDP Servers
Reports from security researchers show that an army of thousands of infected computers is used by cybercriminals to detect point-of-sale (POS) terminals that are accessed via the remote desktop...
View ArticleMicrosoft abandons No-IP malware case
What started as Microsoft warring against botnets ended with Microsoft quietly surrendering as the company drops its case against the dynamic DNS company No-IP.
View ArticleNSA-created Digital Security Gaps Frustrate Tech Experts
These gaps allow broad surveillance, Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said.
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