Google Triples Some Bug Bounty Payouts
Google is announcing much higher bug bounty payouts for Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Play.
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Slack Initiates Mass Password Reset
More victims of a 2015 credential-harvesting incident have come to light.
Security Watch: Elon Musk’s NeuraLink Links Brains to iPhones via Bluetooth
Directly linking thoughts to a phone via Bluetooth — what could go wrong?
Mirai Botnet Sees Big 2019 Growth, Shifts Focus to Enterprises
Mirai activity has nearly doubled between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
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The group was posing as a researcher from Cambridge, and was found to have added three new malware families to its spy arsenal.
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The cyberspy group’s activities are broader than originally thought.
Two months after the alarm sounded warning of a WannaCry-level event, progress in patching exposed Windows systems varies by country and industry.
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Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
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Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on Physical Cyber Threats
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Newsmaker Interview: Troy Mursch on Top Botnet Trends
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Chris Vickery on the Marriott Breach and a Rash of Recent High-Profile Hacks
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Newsmaker Interview: Katie Moussouris on Improving Bug Bounty Programs
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Why Cities Are a Low-Hanging Fruit For Ransomware
In this first part of a two part series, Shawn Taylor with Forescout talks to Threatpost about lessons learned from helping Atlanta remediate and recover from its massive ransomware attack.
Implementing Bug Bounty Programs: The Right and Wrong Approaches
Threatpost catches up with David Baker, the chief security officer at Bugcrowd, about the future of bug bounty programs.
Threatpost Podcasts
A collection of current, past and upcoming Threatpost podcasts on the cybersecurity topics that matter most.
Thousands of IoT Devices Bricked By Silex Malware
A 14-year-old hacker bricked at least 4,000 Internet of Things devices with a new strain of malware called Silex this week. Threatpost talks to the researcher who discovered the malware.
Podcast: Dating App Privacy and NASA Cyberattack
The Threatpost team discusses the top news of the week – from a NASA cyberincident to dating app privacy issues.
Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices
A security researcher who disclosed flaws impacting 2 million IoT devices in April – and has yet to see a patch or even hear back from the manufacturers contacted – is sounding off on the dire state of IoT security.
News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack
Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discuss a recent lawsuit against Amazon for its privacy policies, a Telegram DDoS attack and more.
News Wrap: Infosecurity Europe Highlights and BlueKeep Anxiety
The Threatpost editors discuss the highlights from Infosecurity Europe, which took place in London this week.
Podcast: Behind-the-Scenes Look at Scattered Canary BEC Cybergang
At Infosecurity Europe, Threatpost gets a behind-the-scenes look at the discovery of BEC cybergang Scattered Canary.
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Data Security in the Cloud: How to Lock Down the Next-Gen Perimeter
Enjoy the video replay of the recent Threatpost cloud security webinar, featuring a panel of experts offering best practices and ideas for managing data in a cloudified world.
Hackers Take Over IoT Devices to ‘Click’ on Ads
A video interview and Q&A with IoT specialist Dan Demeter of Kaspersky Lab.
Lax Telco Security Allows Mobile Phone Hijacking and Redirects
A Q&A with Kaspersky Lab researcher David Jacoby examines a gaping hole in the telco customer-service process that allows adversaries to commandeer phone calls.
Post-Perimeter Security: Addressing Evolving Mobile Enterprise Threats
Experts from Gartner, Lookout and Google talk enterprise mobile security in this webinar replay.
Insider Threats Get Mean, Nasty and Very Personal
Increasingly, attackers are targeting the most vulnerable people inside companies and exploiting their weaknesses.
Forrester: Ransomware Set to Resurge As Firms Pay Off Attacks
In this video, Josh Zelonis, senior analyst at Forrester Research, discusses the next great security threats to enterprises.
RSA Conference 2019: The Expanding Automation Platform Attack Surface
Hacking into smart homes is becoming increasingly easy and a great way to steal victims’ personal information, Trend Micro said at RSA 2019.
RSA Conference 2019: Emotet Takes Aim at Latin America
RAT activity in Latin America and Asia ramped up at the end of 2018, indicating widespread coordinated targeting by threat actors.
RSA Conference 2019: Firms Continue to Fail at IoT Security
IoT is growing more popular in the home – and so too are the attacks that target these devices featuring valuable data, researchers said at RSA 2019.
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2019 Malware Trends to Watch
Here are 10 top malware trends to watch for in the New Year.
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What are the top cyber trends to watch out for in 2019? Here’s what we’re hearing.
2018: A Banner Year for Breaches
A look back at the blizzard of breaches that made up 2018.
Slideshow: Intel from Virus Bulletin 2018
This year’s Virus Bulletin conference featured top-tier research from some of the world’s best threat intelligence experts.
Slideshow: Scenes from Black Hat USA 2013
Scenes from this year’s hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nev. include a keynote by General Keith B. Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency and talks by researchers Karsten Nohl and Ralf-Phillip Weinmann.
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Ryan McGeehan and Chad Greene
Ryan McGeehan, the director of incident response at Facebook and Chad Greene, the manager of the Facebook CERT on Thursday both explained how the social network has planned red team exercises in the past to prepare the company’s security team for a real attack.
Stefan Esser
Mobile security researcher Stefan Esser discussed the security model of Apple iOS and some of the recent changes the company has made to lock it down even further.