Hacking News

Nearly three-quarters, or 74 percent, of chief information security officers (CISO) in Australia believe their CEO has broken internal security protocols, either intentionally or unintentionally, a report from Symantec has found. Read more

At the start of July, Germany’s internet service providers are supposed to start storing records of their customers’ internet usage, under a 2015 law that is now coming into effect. However, a regional court reckons the law is illegal under EU rules. Read more

Virgin Media has warned 800,000 customers using its Super Hub 2 router to change their passwords because a security vulnerability could expose their passwords to hackers, enabling attackers to gain control of other smart devices on the network. The company says that the risk of compromise is only minimal, but customers who haven’t changed the

Germany’s coalition government has significantly increased police hacking powers by slipping a last-minute amendment into a law that’s nominally supposed to deal with driving bans. While the police have so far only been allowed to hack into people’s phones and computers in extreme cases, such as those involving terrorist plots, the change allows them to

Google has updated its removal policies with the new category of private medical records. The search giant quietly updated its search result removal policy page on Thursday, as noted in a report by Bloomberg. Google confirmed the policy update. The document now says Google may remove “confidential, personal medical records of private people”. Read more

A sophisticated banking trojan has once again develop new techniques in order to trick Android users into downloading the malware. It’s the latest variant of Marcher Android malware and this time it’s posing as an Adobe Flash Player Update. Having first appeared on Russian-speaking undeground forums in late 2013, previous incarnations of Marcher have posed

Victoria’s Acting Deputy Commissioner Ross Guenther told reporters on Friday that about 590 fines issued from the speed and red-light cameras found to be infected with WannaCry have been canceled. The WannaCry ransomware that claimed hundreds of thousands of victims across 150 countries most recently found itself on 55 speed and red-light cameras on state

CHICAGO — The next time you have trouble accessing a mission critical application and need to prove your identity, you may be making your case not to network administrators or IT support but to a machine learning algorithm. Read more

A recent research report from security organization Absolute and the Ponemon Institute said that over the past year, malware infections increased 53%, malware severity increased 46%, and more than half of endpoints contain sensitive information and are vulnerable to attack. Read more

Generally, cybersecurity is thought of as a defensive strategy. Companies build defenses based on known vulnerabilities for future attacks and leverage forensic technology for clean-up in the wake of a breach. While defense is one hallmark of a sound cyber strategy, can cybersecurity be used offensively? Can we flip the old sports adage into “the