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German nuclear plant infected with plethora of computer viruses
The viruses were reportedly kept offline and cannot impact the plant’s operations.
By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016 -
New federal cybersecurity rules moving too slow, senators say
Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Tom Carper, D-Del., sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget this week voicing their frustrations that the lack of a new policy is preventing federal agencies from better protecting their networks.
By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016 -
House passes Email Privacy Act, 419-0
Though the legislation was unanimously passed in the House, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
By Justine Brown • April 28, 2016 -
Report: Human error, weak passwords among common traits in cybersecurity breaches
In its annual Data Breach Digest, Verizon released themes across the more than 500 cybersecurity incidents it investigated last year.
By Justine Brown • April 27, 2016 -
Fake DDoS attacks are leading to real extortion
Several VPN service providers were recently hit with empty threats—and paid up.
By Justine Brown • April 27, 2016 -
Deep Dive
Cryptoworms are coming, but is your company ready?
The latest trend in the security threat landscape could be self-propagating ransomware.
By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016 -
Investigators: Bangladesh Bank heist included SWIFT system hack
Security weaknesses reportedly enabled attackers to modify a SWIFT software program installed on bank servers.
By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016 -
Defense Department wants its own encrypted messaging platform
The DoD wants to create a new messaging app based on blockchain technology, which would make communications more secure.
By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016 -
Spotify user data appears online, but company vows no new hack occurred
The company said it has not been hacked and that its user records are secure, which has led some to conclude that the available account details are from a previous data breach.
By Justine Brown • April 26, 2016 -
Bug hunter finds backdoor in Facebook's servers left behind by hackers
But a member of the company's security team was quick to downplay the vulnerability on the third-party software and said hackers were unable to use the backdoor to breach other parts of Facebook's infrastructure.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2016 -
Personal information of every voter in Mexico left unsecured
The data was available on an Amazon Web Services server that was not password protected, but the company says on its website that security in the cloud is up to the customers, while it manages security of the cloud.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2016 -
MIT premieres bug bounty program
One of the first at a major U.S. university, the "experimental" bug bounty program will reward accredited affiliates who locate vulnerabilities on MIT’s internal domains.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2016 -
SecureWorks launches first tech IPO of 2016, but results disappoint
The cybersecurity company raised $112 million, significantly less the $181 million it had originally hoped for.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2016 -
Report: Bangladesh Bank subject to cyber heist had cheap, dated security
An investigator discovered the bank had no firewall and used second-hand switches to network computers.
By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016 -
NASA's defenses weakened from revolving door of security leadership, inspector general says
Over the past year and a half, NASA has had three "acting" senior security officers in the CIO's department.
By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016 -
Tech companies rally to fight 'unworkable' encryption bill
Companies like Apple, Facebook and Google, along with privacy proponents, say the proposed legislation would weaken defenses rather than strengthen them.
By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016 -
Google temporarily finds Google.com 'partially dangerous'
The company’s Safe Browsing program warns users about its own website.
By Justine Brown • April 21, 2016 -
Apple, FBI again fight over encryption at Congressional hearing
Congress is examining the issue again in light of recent draft encryption legislation.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2016 -
Why a federal jury ordered Tata Consultancy to pay Epic Systems $940M
The case highlights challenges in controlling permissions when companies use third-party contractors.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2016 -
Amazon rolls out tool for automated cloud security
Despite huge growth in the adoption of cloud technology, security remains a primary concern for enterprises.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2016 -
Federal agencies still struggle to close cybersecurity skills gap
The Office of Personnel Management said experts and chief human capital officers will collaborate to develop a government-wide strategy for improvement.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2016 -
Despite previous comments, Homeland Security supports federal open source policy
The department previously slammed a draft White House policy that would encourage 20% sharing of custom code between agencies.
By Justine Brown • April 19, 2016 -
Security loophole in cell phone system could give hackers access to calls, texts, locations
The FCC reportedly has done little to address the issue since it was first identified two years ago.
By Justine Brown • April 19, 2016 -
With human input, MIT's AI system can predict 85% of cyberattacks
Combining three different machine learning algorithms enabled AI2 to generate five times fewer false positives than previously developed cyberattack AIs.
By Justine Brown • April 19, 2016 -
Remember the guy who deleted his company? That was a hoax
But the hoaxster claims he knew someone who once did that.
By Randy Lilleston • April 18, 2016
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