cybersecurity

Security researchers have long known about the vulnerabilities of the RFID readers that many buildings use instead of door locks, but facilities managers have been slow to upgrade to more secure systems.To draw attention to the problem, at next week…

If you have a Google account and a stranger sends you a link to a document on Google Drive, think twice before clicking — it could be a phishing scam designed to harvest your Google credentials.According to Aditya Sood, architect at Elastica Cloud …

Vulnerabilities in Android’s “Stagefright” code allows criminals to send malware to any user via text message — and the user gets infected without even having to open it, according to a new report from Zimperium zLabs.This is the most serious Andro…

In a recent security assessment of ten smartwatches and their iOS and Android companion applications, every single watch had at least one significant security flaw, according to a new report from HP Fortify.One common problem was that the data that …

According to a new survey of Black Hat attendees released last week, InfoSec professionals are spending the biggest amount of their time and budgets on security problems created within the organization itself.Security vulnerabilities introduced by t…

Life is tough if you’re a criminal.Sure, one big score can set you up for life. If you’re smart and disciplined, you can retire early. But the flip side of that is that the smart and disciplined cybercriminals cash out and retire early, leaving you …

230 million patients. 3,300 hospitals. 900,000 healthcare professionals. 98 percent of U.S. pharmacies. More than 700 different electronic health record platforms. 764 million medication histories. 6.5 billion transactions processed last year alone….

The comment period on a proposed set of software export restrictions ends next Monday, and the rules, as written, would severely restrict international sales, deployment, research and even discussion of cybersecurity tools and exploits, experts say….

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world’s top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression.
But while cops and firefighters are often ready to retire after 25 years on the job, protecting citizens, the EFF has a full agenda…

Advertising networks have gotten better at spotting malicious downloads embedded into advertisements, so criminals began using redirects, even chains of a dozen redirects or more, to keep their malicious ads from being detected.Advertising networks …

Symantec has identified a group of cybercriminals, whom they’ve named “Butterfly,” as targeting corporate intellectual property for financial gains, with Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft among those hit.”Attackers going after intellectual prop…

Malvertising campaigns have reached more users than ever before, reported security firm Invincea yesterday, with many brand-name websites affected — including CBS Sports, Yahoo and eBay in the UK, Livestrong, Perez Hilton, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com…

As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing government agents special access to communications would have detriment…

Enterprises are still heavily dependent on Windows Server 2003 even though there were plenty of warnings that support is coming to an end on July 14 — and this opens them up to security, compliance and operational risks.According to a June report c…

According to new recommendations by an IEEE study group, the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated addresses for better security and privacy.
Today, the 802.11 Wi-Fi standards are designed so that each mobile device gets its …