Infosecurity News

Over 550 Fake US Election Web Domains Discovered
Threat actors are trying to dupe American voters with fake websites

UK Abandons Planned Online Pornography Age Verification System
National system to stop children viewing porn online proved too difficult to implement

Industry Calls for Standardization of CISO Role
Forum for cybersecurity pros wants more clarity regarding security leadership roles

Over 100 Million IoT Attacks Detected in 1H 2019
Kaspersky urges users to change factory default passwords

Revealed: State-Sponsored Campaign that Helped China Build an Aircraft
Systematic hacking operation provided intelligence for C919 airliner

Major Carding Forum BriansClub Suffers Data Breach
Stolen data is stolen again as hackers turn on each other

#ISWUK: Ransomware Remains Top Threat For Present and Future
Too much focus on future threats, when we've not solved today's

Canadian Students Are Sharing Passwords to Prove Friendships
Quebec government says students aren’t getting the cyber-safety message

A Quarter of Americans Want Cyber-Flashers Jailed for Five Years
Survey reveals harsher punishments wanted for senders of unsolicited nudes

Florida Women's Clinic Warns 520,000 Patients of Data Breach
Hackers may have accessed medical records of North Florida OB-GYN patients

#ISWUK: Trust Erosion Preventing Business Transformation
As more data is created, trust is eroded

Ex-TalkTalk Security Leader to Take on Firm in Unequal Pay Dispute
Rebecca Burke is crowdfunding tribunal costs

Analyst Urges UK CISOs to Act on Brexit
Focus on staffing, data transfers and breach reporting, says Forrester

Pitney Bowes and Groupe M6 Hit By Ransomware
US tech firm and French media giant latest victims

Atlanta Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Improper Access of County Network
A judge is one of four people accused of improperly accessing Gwinnett County’s computer network

Thoma Bravo to Buy Sophos Group for $3.8bn
Thoma Bravo to add British company to its growing cybersecurity portfolio

Tactics of Supply-Chain Attack Group Exposed
Researchers rumble secret methods of Winnti Group

Stolen Cloud API Key to Blame for Imperva Breach
Security firm comes clean over compromise

Scottish Teens Charged With Met Police Hack
Police force’s news platform was compromised in July

Microsoft and NIST Team Up on Patching Guide
Initiative will produce common reference architectures and processes



