Florida city to pay $600,000 to ransomware gang
The city council of Riviera Beach, Florida, have voted unanimously to pay more than $600,000 in Bitcoins to a ransomware gang who had held...
Will Facebook’s Libre Coins Exist Soon? Ask Congress
For many years, Facebook literally ignored the existence of cryptocurrency as a potential business which the social media giant can engage with. As the...
Stringent data protection regulation has gone global
What the future looks like as GDPR’s one-year anniversary approaches ZDNet’s Danny Palmer sits down with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby to break down exactly what...
VideoLAN Patches Critical Vulnerability in VLC Media Player
VideoLAN has addressed a critical double-free vulnerability in the VLC media player that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on target systems....
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NIST Cybersecurity Framework For Organizations To Follow
The National Institute of Standards and Framework for Cyber Security Framework (CSF) was released in February 2014 in response to the residential Executive Order...
Flaw in Outlook for Android Allows for Data Theft
A vulnerability recently addressed in Outlook for Android allows an attacker to steal information from the affected device. The vulnerability, Microsoft reveals, resides in...
Protection Against Side-Channel Attacks Added to OpenSSH
Protection against Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer, RAMBleed and other side-channel attacks has been added to OpenSSH. These recently uncovered attack methods can allow malicious actors...
TrueFort Secures $13.7 Million in Series A Funding
Real-time application behavior analytics, control, and protection provider TrueFort has raised $13.7 million in a Series A funding round. Founded in 2015, the New...
Speaking at a conference? What to ask for instead of cash.
If you’re getting into public speaking for the money, you’re definitely doing it for the wrong reasons. It can be a huge letdown to find...
Microsoft: We’re fighting Windows malware spread via Excel in email with bad macro
A single actor is scanning Windows systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep flaw A threat actor hidden behind Tor nodes is scanning for Windows systems...