Infosecurity News
No Going Back: EU GDPR Gets Final Approval
Major new privacy rules will land in May 2018
Users Urged to Uninstall QuickTime for Windows
Apple won’t patch anymore, so it’s time to get rid of it
Facebook Moves to Kill App Passwords
App developers and site owners can let users log in without passwords—instead, they can use their phone number or email address.
IT Pros: ‘C-Suite Doesn’t Understand Cloud Risk’
Intel Security study highlights need for cyber security education
UK Prosecutors and Police Still Losing Vital Evidence
Privacy warning in new report
Malvertising Push Infects 288 Popular Websites
The effort is affecting most of the popular Dutch websites, with potentially hundreds of thousands exposed to ransomware.
PowerShell Exploits Spotted in Over a Third of Attacks
Carbon Black study claims Windows tool is a useful one for hackers too
Patch Tuesday Brings Badlock Bulletin and Zero Day Fixes
Experts warn admins not to be distracted by overhyped bug
Massive Syrian Government Hack All Down to Joomla
The Cyber Justice Team obtained the info by exploiting known and outdated vulnerabilities in the web portals used by the Assad regime.
BadLock Opens Door for Samba-based MiTM, DDoS Attacks
The researchers who discovered it noted, “we are pretty sure that there will be exploits soon after we publish all relevant information.”
Chinese Hackers Bribe Their Way onto Third Party App Stores
Check Point claims security vendor’s whitelisting didn’t work
Petya Decryption Tool Now Available
But ransomware authors are working on a solution, warn experts
Researcher Unearths Flaw in Popular Modems
The vulnerability leaves modems open to unauthenticated reboot attacks
SQL Injection Flaw Found in Mossack Fonseca CMS
Panamanian law firm had poor cybersecurity posture
Tens of Millions of Desktops Still Run Windows XP
Vulnerabilities discovered in XP will not be patched by Microsoft, leaving millions of businesses open to "0-days forever."
Citadel Banking Trojan Returns as 'Atmos'
The new strain is currently targeting banks in France and it was also spotted being delivered with TeslaCrypt.
Nationwide Trialing Behavioral Biometrics
New app will authenticate mobile banking customers
Black Hats Bungle Adobe Flaw
Exploit only affected users of older version, says Malwarebytes
1 in 10 Britons Engage in 'Honest Hacking'
Another two in three (62%) are accidental hackers, having inadvertently logged into someone else’s account on a shared computer.
Unpatched Software, Misconfiguration Plague 1000s of Organizations
Nearly all of these exploitable weaknesses—a present for criminals—are easy to fix with software patches or simple administrative changes.
