Archive - August 2019

#SocialSec: Hot takes on this week’s biggest cybersecurity news (Aug 30) 30 August 2019 at 15:58 UTC BSides Manchester: Hackers swarm to UK’s second city 30 August 2019 at 14:54 UTC Bug bounty leaders: Six hackers cross $1m earnings threshold 29 August 2019 at 13:00 UTC People over profits: Reframing corporate responsibility for data breaches 29 August 2019 at 10:58 UTC WAF vendor Imperva admits breach exposed customer details 28 August 2019 at 12:31 UTC Magecart: How a single skimming case evolved into widespread credit card theft 28 August 2019 at 10:16 UTC AV Oracle: New hacking technique leverages antivirus to steal secrets 27 August 2019 at 10:31 UTC Ancient ZIP bomb attack given new lease of life 23 August 2019 at 15:46 UTC #SocialSec: Hot takes on this week’s biggest cybersecurity news (Aug 23) 23 August 2019 at 14:52 UTC IoT security: India faces growing onslaught of cyber-attacks 23 August 2019 at 11:39 UTC US cements itself as biggest market for ransomware 22 August 2019 at 14:47 UTC Hacktivism returns to its roots as a cyber warfare tool 22 August 2019 at 14:03 UTC HTTPS everywhere? Cloudflare planning improvements to middleware detection utility 22 August 2019 at 10:25 UTC Smart cities dumb down privacy concerns 21 August 2019 at 17:01 UTC Microsoft pushes out Chromium-based Edge with new bug bounty program 21 August 2019 at 13:45 UTC Webmin backdoor blamed on software supply chain breach 20 August 2019 at 15:19 UTC Surviving the storm: What to do in a security meltdown 20 August 2019 at 13:56 UTC ‘Kaspersky-in-the-Middle’ bugs triaged 20 August 2019 at 12:42 UTC Coinbase remedies clear text snafu by asking some users to reset passwords 19 August 2019 at 14:49 UTC New OSINT technique exploits password reset process to obtain users’ phone numbers 19 August 2019 at 11:46 UTC NHS healthcare facilities given fresh set of cybersecurity tools 16 August 2019 at 15:58 UTC ‘People affected should change their fingers immediately’ 16 August 2019 at 14:16 UTC Hosted accountancy software firm iNSYNQ offers ransomware post-mortem 16 August 2019 at 11:03 UTC US supermarket chain Hy-Vee probes possible payment card data breach 15 August 2019 at 15:08 UTC Digital camera ransomware threat may extend to other vendors 15 August 2019 at 13:28 UTC HTTP/2 pinged by DDoS vulnerabilities 14 August 2019 at 12:34 UTC Mozilla joins Google in making Extended Validation a browser footnote 13 August 2019 at 15:46 UTC BGP: Internet observatory gives visibility to routing problems 13 August 2019 at 12:05 UTC Apple patches UXSS found in Safari  13 August 2019 at 09:26 UTC Wicked6: Infosec esports competition spotlights women in the workforce  12 August 2019 at 11:01 UTC Researchers bypass Incognito tracking protection in Chrome 76 09 August 2019 at 16:31 UTC ‘This happens a lot more than many customers realize, it's often just brushed under the carpet’ 09 August 2019 at 15:29 UTC Early warning: Website defacement alert utility debuts in the desert 09 August 2019 at 12:31 UTC Thousands of medical records exposed in Australia 09 August 2019 at 10:46 UTC Researcher uses GDPR data transparency clause to obtain users’ sensitive information 08 August 2019 at 22:37 UTC Eyeballer: AI utility scours website screenshots for bug bounty candidates 08 August 2019 at 18:31 UTC SQL injection flaw opened doorway to Starbucks’ accounting database 08 August 2019 at 14:45 UTC Microsoft recognizes top-tier security researchers at Black Hat 2019 08 August 2019 at 12:01 UTC Evading antivirus with AVET 08 August 2019 at 09:35 UTC Communication placed front and center during Black Hat 2019 opening sessions 08 August 2019 at 05:09 UTC The service worker hiding in your browser 08 August 2019 at 00:54 UTC Ancient technique tears a hole through modern web stacks at Black Hat 2019 07 August 2019 at 22:00 UTC JSShell takes cross-site scripting to new highs 07 August 2019 at 20:02 UTC Security of popular kids’ tablet ‘quite concerning’, researchers find 07 August 2019 at 12:37 UTC Black Hat Briefings: Assessing the impact of last year’s pioneering security research 06 August 2019 at 21:01 UTC US states demand help in cyber efforts 06 August 2019 at 16:01 UTC Google Chrome hides www to simplify address bar 06 August 2019 at 14:10 UTC Spies piggyback on IoT insecurity to hack into corporate networks 06 August 2019 at 11:55 UTC Google lifts the veil on Chrome cache partition plans 05 August 2019 at 15:25 UTC 20 years of DDoS attacks: What has changed? 05 August 2019 at 11:31 UTC Security’s Brexit-sized pebble makes waves for concerned infosec workers 02 August 2019 at 15:04 UTC ‘Nothing compromised! Except, you know, all the stuff that was compromised’ 02 August 2019 at 14:34 UTC Equifax data breach settlement: Regulators fire the first ‘warning shot’ of many 01 August 2019 at 13:19 UTC EU bug bounty equips FileZilla with fresh round of security patches 01 August 2019 at 10:01 UTC