Infosecurity News
Alleged Kickass Torrent Founder Arrested, Site Goes Offline
The alleged founder and owner of Kickass Torrents, one of the biggest piracy sites on the web, has been arrested in Poland
Health Data on Nearly Every Dane Sent to Chinese Firm
Postal blunder sees unencrypted CDs delivered to wrong address
Oracle Unleashes Biggest Patch Update Ever
Admins under pressure as hundreds of bugs are disclosed
Thousands At Risk After Flaw Found In Popular Security Products
Researchers have discovered flaws in products from some of the world’s biggest security firms that could potentially expose hundreds of thousands of users to attack
ICO in Internet of Things Security Warning
Watchdog urges users to act now to protect connected homes
DDoS Attacks Increase In Size And Frequency
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks increased in size and frequency during the first half of this year, according to figures released by Arbor Networks
Over One-Third of Managers Would Bypass IT Security
Shadow IT Challenge Still Causing Problems
Carbon Black Acquires Next-Gen AV Firm Confer
Carbon Black aims to deliver the industry’s most complete, single endpoint security platform
Fitness Bands Struggle With Privacy; Leave Data Exposed
New research suggests many of the most popular fitness bands struggle with basic security and do not adequately protect user data
Ubuntu Forum Hack Exposes 2 Million Users
Ubuntu developer Canonical has confirmed that a data breach exposed personal information of two million forum users
Microsoft Wins Landmark Email Privacy Case
US government wanted to access data stored in Ireland
Ransomware Service Staff Offer Victims Discounts
F-Secure report compares customer experience
For Most Orgs, Privileged Account Management Is Severely Lacking
20% of businesses have never changed their default passwords on privileged accounts, and 30% allow accounts and passwords to be shared.
MIT Hit with a Series of DDoS Campaigns
An investigation by Akamai SIRT revealed that close to 43% of attack vectors leveraged included DDoS reflection and amplification.
#RackspaceSolve Board Needs to Understand Security to Adopt Cloud
The security and cloud balance is less of an issue now, as security becomes a boardroom issue.
Fake Play Store Apps Milk Info and Money From Victims
Eset warns users: ‘if it’s too good to be true it usually is’
Nation State Energy Grid Malware Bypasses Cyber and Physical Security
SentinelOne spots new threat on Dark Web
cuteRansomware Signals a Malicious Move to the Cloud
cuteRansomware launches from Google Docs to host the decryption key and command-and-control functionality.
Chinese Military Spy Sentenced to 46 Months in the Clink
Su Bin admitted to helping his homeland make off with blueprints for Pentagon military jet components—for profit only, he said.
Sextortion Bill Introduced in US Congress
The legislation makes online sexual extortion a federal crime, defined as the use of extortion and threats to coerce sexual activity.
