A new survey and report from Tanium and NASDAQ, using a research team from Goldsmiths, University of London, seeks to quantify organizations' cyber security vulnerability.
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Panama Papers: Massive Data Leak Exposes Corrupt World Leaders and Tax Havens
2.6 Terabytes of Leaked Documents From Panama Law Firm Mossack Fonseca Expose World Leaders, Tax Havens and Shell Companies
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Researcher Gets $13,000 for Microsoft Authentication Flaw
Microsoft has patched a serious authentication vulnerability that could have been exploited to gain access to Outlook, Azure and Office accounts, a researcher reported over the weekend.
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Romanian Hacker “Guccifer” Appears in U.S. Court
Marcel Lazar Lehel, the 44-year-old Romanian national accused of hacking into the online accounts of many public figures, has been extradited to the United States where he made his first court appearance last week.
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The Terrorist Justification for Mass Surveillance
The UK government's attempts to ease the passage of the hugely controversial Investigative Powers Bill continued this week with a Telegraph opinion piece from William Hague (former First UK Secretary of Sate and former leader of the Conservative Party): The Brussels attacks show the need to crack terrorist communications.
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Security, Compliance Remain Biggest Concerns Over Cloud
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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