A new survey into cloud concerns undertaken by database security firm HexaTier provides no surprises: security risks (44%) followed by compliance and regulation (29%) are the two biggest factors preventing greater cloud adoption (although we are specifically talking about database as a service rather than cloud in general).
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Industry Reactions to FBI’s iPhone Hack
The controversial case in which the FBI asked Apple to unlock the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino Islamic terrorist shooter appears to have ended after the law enforcemen
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Why Are Law Firms Targeted by Cyberattacks?
Last week The Wall Street Journal reported that two major US law firms had been hacked in the summer of 2015. Why, by whom, and what was stolen is just conjecture.
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Hackers Can Remotely Unlock Doors via Flaw in HID Controllers
Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a serious vulnerability in door controllers developed by access control and secure identity solutions provider HID.
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Code Execution Flaw Found in Lhasa Decompression Library
Cisco reported on Thursday that it has discovered a vulnerability in the Lhasa library that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems.
Lhasa is an open source tool and library used to parse and decompress LHA (.lzh) archives, and it’s offered as an alternative for the UNIX LHA utility.
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U.S. Electric Grid – America the Vulnerable
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Continue readingTor, CloudFlare Spar Over Malicious Traffic
Tor Urges Sites to Switch CDNs After CloudFlare Says Most Traffic Is Malicious
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Researchers Can Now Register to Hack The Pentagon
Department of Defense Partners With HackerOne on First Federal Government Bug Bounty Program
Earlier this month, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced "Hack the Pentagon," a new bug bounty program that will award security researchers who can discover vulnerabilities on the Pentagon's public web pages.
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Petya Ramsomware Performs Two-Step Encryption
Petya, the ransomware family recently discovered to encrypt entire hard disks, performs a two-phase encryption process, researchers have discovered.
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“KimcilWare” Ransomware Targets Magento Websites
A new piece of ransomware apparently designed to encrypt files on websites running the popular Magento ecommerce solution has been spotted in the wild.
The threat, dubbed “KimcilWare,” has been analyzed by researchers of the Malware Hunter Team and Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer.
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