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Security Costs Money. So – Who Pays?
Computer security costs money. It costs more to develop secure software, and there's an ongoing maintenance cost to patch the remaining holes. Spending more time and money up front will likely result...
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Emergency Patch Issued for Samba, WannaCry-type Bug Exploitable with One Line...
The team behind the free networking software Samba has issued and emergency patch for a remote code execution vulnerability. Tom Spring reporting from Threatpost writes: "The flaw poses a severe threat...
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Conventional Thinking Won’t Work in New Era of ISIS & ‘Unprecedented’...
Conventional thinking or solutions will no longer work in the new era of ISIS and the 'Unprecedented' cyber and non-cyber attacks we live in today. Like it or not, everyone is impacted, and no one is...
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Good Samaritans with Network Visibility
In a big open office 30 feet from me, a team of US Veterans speak intently on the phone to businesses large and small, issuing urgent warnings of specific cyber security threats. They call to get...
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Major Regulatory Changes Needed as Safety and Security Merge, Warns European...
University of Cambridge's Professor Ross Anderson explains why safety should be higher on the agenda than privacy. (From the Computerphile YouTube channel) As we increasingly move towards an IoT...
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NTIA Issues RFC, Asks for Input on Dealing With Botnets and DDoS Attacks
NTIA issued a Request for Comments today asking for broad input from "all interested stakeholders, including private industry, academia, civil society, and other security experts," on actions against...
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Al Jazeera Under Systematic Cyberattack
The websites and digital platforms of Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing systematic and continual hacking attempts, the news agency reported a few hours ago on its website. "Last...
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Canadian Internet Registration Authority Launches Cloud-Based DNS Firewall...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced the launch of a security service called D-Zone DNS Firewall — a cloud-based cybersecurity solution — to protect Canadian organizations...
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Major Flaw Found in WannaCry Raises Questions on Whether it was Really a...
WannaCry's Decryptor interface – Image shows WannaCry providing two methods of communication with the attackers: the “Contact Us” link and the “Check Payment” button on the main decryptor interface...
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Russian Interference More Vigorous than Assumed, Over 39 States Targeted...
"Voter databases and software systems in an overwhelming number of states — 39 to be exact — were targeted by Russian cyberattacks over the summer and fall of 2016," Allegra Kirkland reporting today in...
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FBI, DHS Release Technical Details on North Korea’s DDoS Botnet Infrastructure
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI today released a technical alert based joint-effort analysis of methods behind North Korea’s cyberattacks. From today's release: "This alert...
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North Korea’s Spy Agency Behind WannaCry
According to a report from The Washington Post, the NSA has linked the North Korean government to the creation of the WannaCry ransomeware that resulted in affecting over 300,000 people in almost 150...
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Honda Halts Domestic Car Production Plant Due to WannaCry Virus in Computer...
Production at a Honda domestic vehicle plant was halted for a day this week as a result of the discovery of WannaCry ransomware in the computer network, the company reports. Reported today in Reuters:...
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Cyberattack on UK Parliament Halts Email Access
UK parliament has been the target of a "sustained and determined" cyberattack by hackers attempting to gain access to Member of Parliaments' and their staffers' email accounts. The Guardian reports:...
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South Korean Banks Receive DDoS Threat from Hacker Group, Record Ransomware...
Various sources including South Korea's news agency Yonhap are reporting that a hacker group has threatened to launch a DDoS attack against seven South Korean banks unless they pay about 360 million...
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Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Effecting Banks, Telecom,...
Supermarket 'Rost' in Kharkiv, East Ukraine – all the payment terminals appear to have been hit by the Petya ransomeware. (Photo posted on Twitter this morning by Mikhail Golub / @golub) A large scale...
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U.S. Nuclear Power and Other Energy Companies Hacked by Russians According to...
Russian government hackers are reported to be behind latest cyber-intrusions into the business systems of U.S. nuclear power and other energy companies with efforts to assess networks. Ellen Nakashima...
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U.S. Critical Infrastructure Will Be Attacked Within 2 Years, According to...
According to a 2017 Black Hat Attendee Survey, cyberattacks on U.S. enterprise and critical infrastructure are coming soon, and in most cases defenders are not prepared. Published for this year's Black...
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Extreme Cyberattack Could Cost as Much as Superstorm Sandy, Says Insurer...
A global cyberattack has the potential to cost $120bn in economic losses, roughly the equivalent of a catastrophic natural disaster like 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, a scenario described in new research by...
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Kansas System Hacked, Social Security Numbers of Millions Accessed Spanning...
Hackers breached a Kansas Department of Commerce data system used across multiple states and gained access to more than 5.5 million Social Security Numbers, according to local news sources. The agency...
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