Sen. Ron Wyden wants answers from the FCC on cellular network breaches and security.
The Spectre and Meltdown hardware bugs have pushed vendors such as Google to rethink how they deploy defenses.
Security debt is the accumulation of the patches missed, the risks accepted, and the configurations misapplied. Many enterprise security problems arise when the bill comes due.
The long-awaited report from the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security called on the industry to improve IoT security, to develop better anti-DDoS technologies, and educate users about botnets. Regulation is not mentioned...yet.
Capsule8 is working to change the way enterprises think about attack detection and response.
Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) is the federal equivalent to DMZ. Dramatic changes in IT led by cloud adoption and mobile means we need to rethinking TIC.
Let's go back to 2015 in this animated Hacker History, when hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek teamed up to show the world how the latest infotainment features in automobiles can be used to remotely hijack the car.
Facebook has changed the way people can use two-factor authentication to protect their accounts, adding authenticator apps.
After Meltdown and Spectre, many researchers warned that increased scrutiny on side-channel meant more attacks will be found, so the discovery of "Variant 4" is not a surprise. More variants will be found as chip makers update their designs over the next few years to fix the issues.
FireEye has released PwnAuth, an open source tool designed to help security professionals test their organization's ability to detect and respond to attacks abusing OAuth.
Twenty years after their famous Senate hearing, four members of the L0pht hacker group came together this week to talk about where things stand.
Yubico has released an SDK that will enable iOS app developers to support hardware-based 2FA.
The FCC is looking into a website flaw that allowed the real-time tracking of anyone with just a mobile phone number.
Amazon S3 buckets aren't the only data repositories that can leak data because of the organization's configuration errors. Other cloud services on the AWS platform are often found accessible by anyone on the Internet.
Google Chrome will mark all HTTP pages as not secure in the coming months, a major milestone in the overdue death of plaintext connections.