Infosecurity News

Silicon Valley CEO Pleads Guilty to $1.5m Fraud
Bouxtie founder faces jail

ICS Computer Attacks Steadily Rising
Africa, Asia and Latin America most targeted for ICS computer attacks, finds Kaspersky Lab

German Researchers Spoof Certificate Authorities
Researchers break certificate authorities' domain validation

Iranian APT Believed to Be Targeting Citizens
Targeted mobile-based attack against Iranian citizens discovered by Check Point

UK Teen Hacker Arrested After DDoS-ing Own Email Provider
ProtonMail investigated Apophis Squad to find poor opsec

US Indicts North Korean Over Sony, Bank and WannaCry Attacks
Lazarus Group member Park allegedly worked for government front company

BA Breach Hits 380,000 Card Payments
Hackers compromised website and mobile ap

Blockers Alone Won't Cure Malvertising Woes
Ad blockers don't go far enough to protect against malvertising, finds The Media Trust

174,000 Alerts per Week Besiege Security Teams
State of the SOAR Report finds SOCs only respond to 12,000 alerts per week

HP Launches First Bug Bounty Program for Printers
The company will offer rewards of up to $10,000

ICO Delivers £60K Fine to Nuisance Email Firm
Marketing company did not seek recipient consent

Silence Please: Researchers Uncover Two-Man Bank Heist Group
One member suspected of being current or former security bod

Nielsen Shareholder Sues Over GDPR Statements
Alleges that company misled over its preparedness

HackerOne Paid $500k in Bug Bounties at DEF CON
Hackers received a historically high payout at H1-702 2018.

Little Security Input in IoT Deployment Decisions
A new survey finds that security teams are not consulted on IoT projects nearly 62% of the time.

Collaborative NIST Project to Manage Privacy Risk
NIST launches a new privacy framework to give organizations strategies to mitigate privacy risks.

Business Email Fraud Attacks Jump 25%
Report reveals how cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting the humans within businesses

UK Teen Admits Mass Email Bomb Hoax
Nineteen-year-old also grounded United Airlines flight

Smart Home Users Failing on Security Basics
Bitdefender report claims many don’t patch firmware

BEC Fraud Hits 500K UK SMEs
Get Safe Online warns of 58% surge since 2017



