Security industry reacts to UK police cyber-crime budget revelations
UK police forces are revealed to have spent a measly £1.3 million on cyber-crime training in the last three years.
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Uber data breach cover-up: security pros speak out
Industry responds as Uber suffers 57 million record breach, then pays hush-money to prevent disclosure to customers in shocking cover-up.
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DUMB ransomware attacks Iranian targets via compromised VPN
Tyrant ransomware threat is being distributed in the country via a compromised VPN app, totally undermining trust in IT departments
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IT Security Thing chooses cybersecurity winners at NetEvents Global awards
IT Security Thing was asked to be one of the judges for the IoT, Cloud & Cybersecurity Innovation Awards 2017.
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Researchers pwn Alexa, turning Amazon Echo into covert listening device
A vulnerability in the Amazon Echo device can be exploited to turn it into a covert spying tool, say researchers.
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Enterprises CAN defend against new wave of anti-forensic cyber-attacks
Researchers agree that the trend of fileless malware attacks is increasing, so how easy is it to spot and identify?
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Cyber-criminals can rat on rippers using new reputation service
A special investigation by threat intelligence specialists Digital Shadows has uncovered the existence of a reputational “Rat-as-a-Service” site called Ripper.cc
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Giuliani (still) Down!
The Giuliani Security website is still down, 48 hours after Donald Trump announced Rudy Giuliani will be his cybersecurity advisor
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Project Wycheproof shines light onto dark art of open source crypto
Google has released Project Wycheproof, which aims to make checking for vulnerabilities easier by checking cryptographic libraries for known weaknesses
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