A Homeland Security alert warns network operators that the security of routers and firewalls must be revisited in the wake of the ShadowBrokers dump and other attacks on enterprise networking equipment.
Google stepped up efforts this week to bolster its security strategy with news from both its Android Security Team and its Safe Browsing Team.
Four leading network management system providers patched nearly a dozen critical cross-site scripting vulnerabilities disclosed Wednesday by Rapid7.
St. Jude Medical yesterday filed a lawsuit alleging that Muddy Waters and Med Sec made false claims and attempted to manipulate St. Jude stock.
Google patched another critical vulnerability that affects potentially every Android device that is exploitable just with a specially crafted jpeg file.
Today’s monthly Android Security Bulletin includes patches for the remaining Quadrooter vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chipsets.
Risks of man-in-the-middle attacks tied to embedded devices that share cryptographic keys and certificates went up sharply over the past nine months.
Yelp today announced a public bug bounty, which will pay up to $15,000 for critical vulnerabilities found on its mobile and desktop sites, public API and other areas of its infrastructure.
In this Threatpost op-ed, computer engineer Alexandrea Mellen explores the need for information security concepts in genetic engineering, and how concepts such as the security triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability apply.
Google patched an undocumented vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass Nexus 5X device’s lock screen via a forced memory dump that exposed the device owner’s password.
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