Infosecurity News

Tinder Spammers in ‘Verified Profile’ Scam
Symantec warns users to check the small print

Banking, Porn and Pokémon Go: Republican Convention Attendees Sloppy With Wi-Fi Security
Attendees at the Republican National Convention negligent over Wi-Fi connections and risk exposing sensitive data

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.



