It was federal Budget time again, and there was little of import on the cybersecurity front – except for an indeterminate allocation that highlights the perception of cybersecurity as a strategic national priority.
David Braue | 08 Apr | Read more
Microsoft patches zero-day flaw and 48 other security flaws in its October 2018 Patch Tuesday security update.
The workers in Telstra’s mailroom knew something was strange when the room was clogged with workers asking for the packages they had been sent.
David Braue | 10 Aug | Read more
Kaspersky reveals Olympic Destroyer attack aimed at Europe a week after EU votes to ban its products at EU institutions.
Italian-made Android spyware "one of the most powerful" surveillance tools for Android ever seen, according to malware researchers at Kaspersky Lab.
A Mirai-like botnet was behind the broadband outage affecting nearly one million customers of German carrier Deutsche Telekom, according to security company Kaspersky Lab.
The US Department of Homeland Security is warning US firms about cyberattacks on a Ukraine power firms in December that impacted hundreds of thousands of customers, however the BlackEnergy trojan’s role in the attacks remains unclear.
Malwarebytes said it may take three to four weeks to fix flaws in its consumer product found by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Feb | Read more
Fallout from the Ashley Madison hack continued, with suicide, spam and a host of other consequences including a class-action lawsuit and the resignation of the company's CEO.
David Braue | 31 Aug | Read more
Darkhotel -- the elite spying group discovered luxury hotels' Wi-Fi networks last year -- is back with new targets, new defensive capabilities, and a new zero-day exploit courtesy of the Hacking Team leak.
Maria Korolov | 12 Aug | Read more
The hackers that targeted Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft developers two years ago have escalated their economic espionage efforts as they seek confidential business information and intellectual property they can profit from.
Lucian Constantin | 09 Jul | Read more
An Italian firm with the appropriate name Hacking Team suffered a massive breach in its company data Sunday, and 400GB of internal documents so far have been released and are being analyzed by reporters and security researchers. Hacking Team's customers are government agencies, including both law enforcement and national security, and the ostensibly legal software it sells to help them intercept communications includes not-yet-exploited vulnerabilities, known as zero-days.
Glenn Fleishman | 07 Jul | Read more
Several antivirus products from security firm ESET had a critical vulnerability that was easy to exploit and could lead to a full system compromise.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Jun | Read more
Privacy group demands Uber probe... Europol hunts Isis online... Oracle goes all-in on the cloud... and more tech news.
IDG News Service staff | 23 Jun | Read more
A deeper look into the latest version of malware known as Duqu shows it used digital certificates from prominent contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group to help mask its activity.
Jeremy Kirk | 16 Jun | Read more