A high-tech, internet-connected fish tank in a North American casino has been used to exfiltrate data from the company’s network. Smart drawing pads used in an architectural firm were part of a botnet used to mount DDoS attacks against websites around the world owned by entertainment companies, design companies, and government bodies. …
A new variant of the macOS malware Fruitfly has been found by security researcher Patrick Wardle on some 400 machines of (mostly) home users located in the US. Fruitfly: The first variant The malware was first flagged earlier this year, and found to be able to take screenshots, turn on the target computer’s webcam, simulate mouse clicks …
Security operations teams are engaged in a constant struggle to keep up with the volume of security alerts, maintain the right skills, and manage incident response processes. They want quality information, presented in a way that makes it easy to grasp and react to quickly. They want not to be bogged down in security alerts, and not to spend …
Anyone in the information security industry who’s interested in Mac security probably knows who Patrick Wardle is. Apart from being Chief Security Researcher at Synack, he’s also the creator of a number of security tools for macOS, which he makes available for free on his Objective-See project site. He has recently scaled back at …
Thycotic released its first annual 2017 State of Cybersecurity Metrics Report which analyzes …
Google has discovered targeted spyware on Google Play that is likely the work of Equus …
IOActive researcher Ruben Santamarta has uncovered a number of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in widely deployed Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs), and has presented his research at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. RDMs are used to …
More than one-third of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, a new Malwarebytes report claims, and 22 percent of these impacted businesses had to cease operations immediately. …
Microsoft is asking researchers to look for bugs inside the latest Windows 10 version (Insider Preview slow ring). Remote code execution bugs can net finders up to $15,000, elevation of privilege flaws up to $10,000, and information disclosure, …
Many workers will feel the need to check-up on work emails while they are away from the office and enjoying a well-earned vacation. Unfortunately, by doing that, they can open organizations to many security risks. T-Systems, the corporate IT and …
Alexander Vinnik, a Russian man arrested on Tuesday in Greece, is allegedly the operator of digital currency exchange BTC-e, through which funds from the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange hack have been laundered. According to “an unofficial …
More than one-third of small and medium-sized businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, a new Malwarebytes report claims, and 22 percent of these impacted businesses had to cease operations immediately. …
Black Hat USA 2017 is underway at Las Vegas, and here are a few photos from the Business Hall, the Arsenal, and the Innovation City. Featured companies: NTT Security, Infobyte, Qualys, Belarc.
