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American Express
Amex users hit with phishing email offering anti-phishing protection

American Express users are being actively targeted with phishing emails impersonating the company and advising users to create an “American Express Personal Safe …

ClixSense
6.6 million ClixSense users exposed in wake of site, company hack

If you’ve ever registered with ClixSense – and millions have – you can consider all your personal information shared with the service compromised. The …

Chevrolet Suburban
GM recalls 3.6 million cars due to potentially fatal software defect

Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) …

city
Improve SecOps by making collaboration easier

There’s one word that we’ve consistently been hearing from information security pundits year after year: Collaboration. More often than not, they were talking …

Stingray
Stingray use lacks transparency and meaningful oversight

Cell-site simulators – aka Stingrays, aka IMSI catchers – are widely used by US law enforcement, usually without a warrant that such type of surveillance should …

Gold
Man hacked, blackmailed gold bullion trading firm

25-year-old Adam Penny hacked the systems of an unnamed gold bullion trading firm, and used the stolen information about gold deliveries to intercept them before they are …

emergency
US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet

What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s …

MySQL
MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise

Researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source database MySQL and its forks (e.g. MariaDB, Percona). One of these …

Danger
Macro-based malware evolves to bypass traditional defenses

Macro-based malware is growing into full-featured malware capable of detecting and bypassing traditional security tools, Barkly researchers have discovered. Macro-based …

healthcare
Compromised electronic health records may haunt you forever

A recent report on the Deep Web black market for electronic health records (EHRs) by researchers affiliated with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology has …

Seagate Central
Your Seagate Central NAS could be hosting mining malware

If you have discovered cryptocurrency mining malware on your system, have removed it, and got compromised again without an idea about how it happened, it could be that the …

The dangers of connecting phones to connected cars

As smart, connected cars get more ubiquitous, they are often the only option you get when renting a car from a rental agency. With all the reports about car hacking, you might …

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