United Airlines cockpit access codes leaked online
A United Airlines flight attendant has inadvertently leaked access codes for the company’s airplanes’ cockpit doors, a safety alert email to United employees has …
Major international crackdown on tech support scams
The FTC, along with federal, state and international law enforcement partners, announced Operation Tech Trap, a nationwide and international crackdown on tech support scams …
Microsoft to governments: Stop hoarding vulnerabilities
Microsoft is full of surprises lately: first they issued patches for unsupported versions of Windows, then they publicly criticized the NSA for hoarding knowledge about …
Are you ready for a second wave of WannaCry ransomware?
WannaCry is a name that made many cry in frustration this weekend, and the danger is still not over. The first onslaught According to Europol director Rob Wainwright, over …
Week in review: WannaCry disaster, SharePoint security, the importance of security culture
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Massive ransomware campaign spreading around the world like wildfire Organizations …
Massive ransomware campaign spreading around the world like wildfire
Organizations around the world have been hit with the Wana Decrypt0r (aka WannaCry) ransomware, in what seems to be the most massive ransomware delivery campaign to date. …
Analysis of 500 million passwords shows what you should avoid
A dump of over 550 million username and password combinations is currently being sold on underground forums, and eager crooks are paying for the privilege to test them out …
US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky Lab software
The big question in Thursday’s intelligence hearing on worldwide threats before the US Senate Intelligence Committee was whether the Russian government interfered with …
HP pushes out fix for keylogging audio driver in its laptops
Swiss security consultancy Modzero revealed on Thursday that a number of HP laptops contain an audio driver that logs users’ keystrokes and stores them in an unencrypted …
Industry reactions to Trump’s executive order on cybersecurity
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity. Mainly, the order requires a number of cybersecurity reviews across the various …
New infosec products of the week: May 12, 2017
Versive Security Engine detects cyber campaigns automatically with AI The Versive Security Engine is an automated threat-hunting system built on Versive’s enterprise-scale …
Advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race
A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional, classical processor in a race to solve a puzzle, figuring out a secret combination up to 100 times faster by using …
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