FDA Warns Medical Device Manufacturers to Take Security More Seriously
The FDA today handed out general cybersecurity guidelines for medical device manufacturers.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Feds Bust Cybercrime Ring Targeting Payroll, Financial Firms
Six members of a Ukrainian cybercrime ring were charged this week after they allegedly tried to illegally access the networks of a number of financial institutions.
Not All in Favor of Harsher Penalties for Convicted Hackers in Europe
Legislation filed late last week in the European Parliament that could broadly reform how convicted cybercriminals are handled fails to adequately differentiate good hackers from bad hackers, a political group argued today.
CERT warns of an unpatched vulnerability in HP’s Insight Diagnostics server management software that could lead to remote code execution attacks.
Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft provided details early Wednesday evening regarding a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet.
A previously reported attack against Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) two years ago was actually much more widespread than initially reported according to a document released to banks from the FDIC late last month and recently uncovered.
Cloud-based note taking software Evernote this week pushed out three new security features including two-factor authentication for some users’ accounts, in hopes of adding an extra layer of protection to accounts.
Beta Bot, a new banking Trojan, has been refined with new infection capabilities and features that enable it to avoid detection by security software.
A 17 year old German schoolboy posted information over the weekend regarding an apparent cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the popular money transfer site PayPal. The problem lies in the site’s search function and at least in the German version of the website can be triggered by using a string of Javascript alert code.
Apple released QuickTime 7.7.4 for Windows, which patched a handful of vulnerabilities, some which could have led to arbitrary code execution and caused the program to unexpectedly terminate.
