Germany draws up a list of rules and recommendations to make routers safer
The German government has drawn up a proposal for rules on the security of routers for use in small offices and homes. The controls are composed by router providers, German telecom providers and the German hardware community.
Once these have been approved, router manufacturers must abide by these r... Read more
Google makes G Suite security alert service widely available for security problems
Google has decided to make its G Suite security alert service widely available. Previously only available in a beta version, the software is now ready to help G Suite organizations detect threats and take action to turn them down.
The warning service was unveiled in September. Designed to complement... Read more
Gemalto: ‘Worldwide, 17,460 records are stolen per minute’.
Worldwide, 4.5 billion records were affected by 945 data breaches in the first half of 2018. This is shown by the new Breach Level Index of security company Gemalto. The number of lost, stolen or degraded records increased by 133 percent compared to the same period in 2017. The number of total infri... Read more
New weapon systems Pentagon very easy to hack
The U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon, is going to deploy a new generation of weapon systems. These systems appear to be very easy to hack. The systems have moderate passwords, employees communicate without using encryption and there are many unresolved bugs.
This is stated in a report by the... Read more
Heathrow Airport is fined for leakage of personnel data
Heathrow Airport Limited has been fined £120,000 (€140,000). The company behind the airport in London has not paid enough attention to data protection. A USB stick with personnel data was lost.
The fine was imposed by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) for a serious violation of the... Read more
BlackBerry launches quantum-resistant solution against cyber attacks
BlackBerry has added a new Quantum-Resistant code signing server to its existing cryptography solutions. This makes it possible to digitally sign software using a program. As a result, it is difficult for a quantum computer to crack it.
Quantum computers work differently than current computers. A qu... Read more
Facebook may be fined billions for data breach
It looks like Facebook is going to get a hefty fine for the data breach earlier this week. Possibly the social network would have to pay a fine of $1.63 billion for the leak that may have hacked fifty million accounts.
Earlier this week Facebook reported that the accounts of up to fifty million peop... Read more
Kubernetes introduces new security features in version 1.12
Kubernetes version 1.12 has been announced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The new version comes with several new features, including a new TLS Bootstrapping security feature that has been worked on over the past two years.
Kubernetes is the most prominent orchestration tool for software c... Read more
Hackers capture data from 50 million Facebook users
Last weekend, Facebook announced that, in the event of a security problem, the data of almost fifty million users had been captured. It is not yet entirely clear how the hack exactly took place, but it has to do with a vulnerability in the way the View as function works.
In a blog, Guy Rosen, vice p... Read more
Hackers can brutally force Apple’s MDM to add rogue devices
Security researchers have found that the Apple interface used to place iPhones and iPads in a Mobile Device Management (MDM) system can be misused to add malicious devices. That's what Ars Technica reports.
MDM systems are often used by organizations to manage and limit the security of employee devi... Read more