A cyber-attack on the website of the Philippines Commission on Elections (Comelec) has resulted in personally identifiable information (PII) of roughly 55 million people being leaked online.
A cyber-attack on the website of the Philippines Commission on Elections (Comelec) has resulted in personally identifiable information (PII) of roughly 55 million people being leaked online.
Enterprise mobile security startup Bluebox security has agreed to be acquired by Lookout, a provider of mobile consumer and business mobile security products.
While Lookout started with a focus on consumer mobile security, the company has expanded its portfolio to target the enterprise technology market.
Hackers breached the systems of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and leaked a large number of documents that appear to show how politicians, businessmen and other public figures from across the world used offshore companies to hide their income and avoid paying taxes.
It has become customary for tech vendors to self-categorize their solutions as “next-gen” in the hope that customers used to buying the “last-gen” can be persuaded to upgrade. They try to muscle analyst firms like Gartner into recommending “next-gen” so they can cast market leaders into the bin of history.
Ask any chief information security officer (CISO) what worries him most about cloud migration and he is likely to reply, 'visibility'. When data goes into the cloud, visibility into the data is usually lost; and what you cannot see, you cannot control. This visibility issue explains the two biggest concerns about cloud: security and compliance.
A group of security researchers has discovered vulnerabilities in the reCaptcha systems of Google and Facebook, and have created an attack that is highly successful at automatically bypassing the protection system.
Cisco published six new security advisories this week, with four rated as 'high impact' and two as 'critical impact'. Released on Wednesday, in the order of publication, they are:
Mumblehard, a botnet comprised of servers running Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, was taken down on February 29, 2016, as part of a cooperation between ESET, the Cyber Police of Ukraine, and CyS Centrum LLC.