Infosecurity News
61% of Orgs Infected with Ransomware
33% paid the ransom and recovered their data, 54% refused to pay but recovered their data anyway.
'Secure' Messaging App Riddled with Security Flaws
Confide - popular with White House aides - could have leaked sensitive user information
Samas RansomWorm Snakes Through Whole Domains
RansomWorm spreads inside throughout the entire network to encrypt every server and computer—and the backups.
Exclusive: Workers Still Ignoring Security Risks from Personal Devices
Symantec research shows that employees use their personal device for work, but are clueless about the security implications
UK Retail Industry Battles Back Against Cyber Threats
Publication of the BRC Cyber Security Toolkit aims to help retailers protect themselves and their customers
WikiLeaks: CIA Secret Exploits Target Car Hacking, Smart TVs
The CIA allegedly can bypass the encryption used by messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Financial Orgs Fall Down on the AppSec Job
74% of potential vulnerabilities are either undetected or unfixed in this vertical.
ICO's Agenda: GDPR, Brexit, WhatsApp & A Culture Of Data Confidence
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s speech at the Data Protection Practitioners' Conference outlined the challenges and issues facing data protection industry
Spammers Exposed After Backup Error Reveals 1.4 Billion Email Addresses
River City Media used huge database to send over one billion spam emails every day, researchers discover
Consumer Reports Debuts Impartial Privacy Standard
It can be used by businesses to measure the privacy and security of products, apps and services.
Grand Theft Auto Creator Launches Bug Bounty
The public launch comes after paying out $85K+ in private bounties in the last 9 months.
HackerOne Offers Free Bounty Programs for Open Source
In the wake of high-profile open-source flaws like Heartbleed and Poodle, there’s an awareness that most of the tools and technology that we use every day run on open-source platforms.
One Million Stolen Gmail & Yahoo Accounts for Sale on Dark Web
The accounts include names, emails and plain text passwords harvested from a variety of infamous data breaches
#GartnerIAM: Tackle GDPR Compliance with Risk Management
Gartner claims that despite low take up, GDPR compliance is not a lost cause
Nurse Fined After Admitting to Accessing Patient Records
Nurse Elaine Lewis was dismissed from role after admitting breaching the Data Protection Act
Businesses Blame DDoS Attacks on Rival Companies
Kaspersky Lab research suggests companies blame competitors for DDoS attacks rather than disgruntled employees or political activists
Hypocrisy Alert: Veep Pence Used AOL Account for State Business
Webmail account was even hacked last year
Cybersecurity Leader Howard Schmidt Remembered
News appeared on Thursday 2 March that Howard Schmidt had passed away following a long battle with cancer
Chinese VoIP Kit Contains Backdoor, Warn Researchers
Shenzhen-based DBL Technology patched but did not fix issue
Amazon Outage Caused by Simple Input Error
Major sites were affected for hours on Tuesday
