Your nearest and dearest are snooping on your phone
If you needed one more reason for protecting your phone with a passcode or fingerprint, here it is: there’s a good chance that one or more of the people close to you …
154 million US voter records exposed following hack
MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered yet another database containing voter profiles of US citizens, accessible to anyone who stumbled upon it or knew …
Severe flaws patched in libarchive, dependent projects urged to follow
Three severe bugs that could be easily exploited to perform arbitrary code execution have been patched with version 3.2.1 of the libarchive open source multi-format archive …
(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 50 released
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 50 has been released today. Table of contents …
Cloud-first is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance
By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-Internet” policy is today, according to Gartner. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is …
FAA finalizes operational rules for drones
The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS …
ApocalypseVM ransomware decrypter released
AV company Emsisoft has added yet another ransomware decrypter tool to its stable: a decrypter for ApocalypseVM. The tool works on the latest versions of the ransomware in …
Tech support scammers impersonate victims’ ISP
Tech support scammers have switched from cold calls to pop-ups ambushing users online, seemingly coming from the victims’ ISP. In the US and Canada, Verizon, AT&T …
Google’s new authentication option: a tap on the screen
Google knowns that usability is a pre-requisite for security, so they’ve come up (yet again) with a new option within the 2-step verification feature for Google …
Unsecured security cameras lead to privacy erosion
The results of a recent analysis of some 6,000 open security cameras across the United States has shown that 15 percent of them are located in users’ private homes. Open …
Most businesses would not pay in the event of a ransomware attack
Business owners in the U.S. recognize the severity of ransomware and the potential disruption to business operations, yet 84 percent say they would not pay in the event of a …
Changes to Rule 41 will increase law enforcement hacking, surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Tor Project, and dozens of other organizations are calling on citizens and website operators to take action to block a new rule …