Black Hat 2019 and DEF CON 27: What to expect at hacker summer camp | TECH(talk)

2nd August 20192nd August 2019 peterglock

Every year, thousands of hackers arrive in Las Vegas for three large security conferences — DEF CON, Black Hat and Bsides Las Vegas — taking place from Monday through Sunday […]

Cisco pays $8.6M to settle security-software whistleblower lawsuit

1st August 20191st August 2019 peterglock

Cisco has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle claims it sold video security software that had a vulnerability that could have opened federal, state and local government agencies to […]

Remote code execution is possible by exploiting flaws in Vxworks

31st July 201931st July 2019 peterglock

Eleven zero-day vulnerabilities in WindRiver’s VxWorks, a real-time operating system in use across an advertised 2 billion connected devices have been discovered by network security vendor Armis. Six of the […]

How an attacker can target phishing attacks

31st July 201931st July 2019 peterglock

There are a number of ways attackers can exploit public information about your organization’s employees. CSO Online’s Susan Bradley walks through how an attacker can gain access to your organization’s […]

Reports: As the IoT grows, so do its threats to DNS

26th July 201926th July 2019 peterglock

The internet of things is shaping up to be a more significant threat to the Domain Name System through larger IoT botnets, unintentional adverse effects of IoT-software updates and the […]