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White Lodging confirms POS system breach at 14 US hotels

Hotel management firm White Lodging has confirmed that it has suffered a breach of point of sales systems and has released additional information about the investigation. …

Cyber risks awaiting visitors and viewers of Sochi 2014 Olympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics are set to start on Friday in Sochi, a Russian city located on the shores of the Black Sea. There have been many controversies regarding this choice …

Google ups rewards for third-party software patches

Google is constantly tweaking its bug bounty and patch reward program, and the latest change consists of another broadening of scope and reward amount increases. …

Adobe Flash flaw exploited in the wild, update now

Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker …

Police ransomware: A multimillion business

The European Cybercrime Centre at Europol published its Threat Assessment on Police Ransomware – a class of computer malware that has seen exponential growth in the …

Lack of skills hindering appsec programs

An ongoing shortage of skills in application security is severely hampering the implementation of effective Appsec programs, according to SANS. The 2014 Application Security …

DDoS attacks used to influence stock prices

Prolexic Technologies shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber attackers are using DDoS attacks in an attempt to influence market values …

Most adults share intimate info via unsecured digital devices

McAfee examined how more than 1,500 consumers are sharing and storing intimate data on their mobile devices, especially with current or former significant others. Sharing …

Windows, IE, Java are most vulnerable

When compared with the numbers from the previous year, 2013 has seen an increase in reported security vulnerabilities and, what’s more, the number of critical …

Target advocates smart cards in wake of breach

The recent avalanche of breaches that resulted in tens of millions of payment cards being compromised has shook both the US retail market and the customers. Despite subsequent …

Personal info of 800,000 Orange customers compromised

Global telecom giant Orange has sent out alerts to nearly 800,000 (some 3 percent) of its French customers warning them that their personal information was compromised in a …

Hackers sue German government for helping NSA spy on its citizens

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Europe’s largest hacker association, and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) are suing the German government for allegedly …

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