Security

How big is the Capital One breach? 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians caught up in breach. In a hearing held earlier today, a Seattle judge decided to keep Paige Thompson, the suspect arrested on accusations of hacking Capital One, under custody until her trial. The judge ruled that ...

Image: Viktor Kiryanov Ukrainian authorities are investigating a potential security breach at a local nuclear power plant after employees connected parts of its internal network to the internet so they could mine cryptocurrency. The investigation is being led by the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU), who is looking at the incident ...

A major botnet operation has been attacking and taking over the web shells (backdoors on web servers) of other malware operations for more than a year, security researchers from Positive Technologies revealed today. Researchers linked the botnet to a former Windows trojan named Neutrino (also known as Kasidet), whose operators ...

A French security researcher has found a critical vulnerability in the blockchain-based voting system Russian officials plan to use next month for the 2019 Moscow City Duma election. Pierrick Gaudry, an academic at Lorraine University and a researcher for INRIA, the French research institute for digital sciences, found that he ...

Facebook has awarded a $100,000 prize to a team of academics from Germany for developing a new code isolation technique that can be used to safeguard sensitive data while it’s being processed inside a computer. The award is named the Internet Defense Prize, and is a $100,000 cash reward that ...

Image: Tor Project Threat actors or nation-states looking into degrading the performance of the Tor anonymity network can do it on the cheap, for only a few thousands US dollars per month, new academic research has revealed. According to researchers from Georgetown University and the US Naval Research Laboratory, threat ...

As cloud rises to encompass to more corporate applications, data and processes, there’s potential for end-users to outsource their security to providers as well.  Photo: Joe McKendrick The need to take control of security and not turn ultimate responsibility over to cloud providers is taking hold among many enterprises, an ...

How to fight robocalls: The basics You can’t block all the spam phone calls, but blocking some is better than blocking none. Read more: https://zd.net/2GGv83H This is something of an “on one hand, on the other hand” story. I’m going to start by heaping faint praise on Verizon, but I’ll ...

Wrestling with Ring: Imagine security cameras on every front door Should we be worried about every single neighbor who installs security camera? Probably not. Jason Cipriani and Jason Perlow discuss Ring’s relationship with law enforcement and what leads to living in a surveillance state. Read more: https://zd.net/305S8Rh This afternoon, my ...

Is your boss taking cybersecurity seriously enough? A survey of security professionals found that over half believe management are ignoring advice designed to help them stay safe from cyberattacks. The future of work is often described in dispassionate numerical and structural terms, leaving far too much to the imagination. Watch ...