More than 20,000 records from eight cities across the United States have been compromised in a new wave of Click2Gov breaches, Gemini Advisory reports. Developed by Superion (now CentralSquare Technologies), Click2Gov provides cities with a self-service bill-pay portal for utilities, community […]

It looks like Verlo Mattress Factory forgot to leave off the last “S” for security: A security researcher has come across an open Elastic database set containing 387,000 records associated with customers of Verlo Mattress Factory. Jeremiah Fowler, senior security researcher with […]

Wakulla County Schools board members on Wednesday reportedly voted unanimously to negotiate with hackers who infected the Florida-based district’s systems with ransomware. The district, located in the Tallahassee metropolitan area, first felt the effects of the attack one earlier this month. […]

Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original — AdBlock and uBlock Origin — extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of millions of users to generate affiliate income from referral schemes fraudulently. There's no […]

Forcepoint has fixed a privilege escalation vulnerability in its VPN Client for Windows. […]

Hewlett Packard acquired the endpoint security firm Bromium on September 19. The Palo Alto-based HP had been licensing Bromium’s technology and for use in its Sure Click solution. Bromium will become part of HP’s broader platform to secure endpoint devices. The deal’s financial […]

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Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka charged for 2015 EtherDelta hack. […]

Authorities are probing a customer data leak at Lion Air, Indonesia's communications ministry said Friday, in a breach that reportedly affected millions of the carrier's customers. Two of the airline's subsidiaries, Malaysia-based Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air, acknowledged passenger data may have […]

Surveillance isn't just the purview of nation-states and government agencies -- sometimes, it is closer to home. […]

A report from a former NSA operative says countries across the world are still adjusting to the new reality of sophisticated cyberwarfare. […]

A nationwide data leak is believed to affect almost all citizens of Ecuador, putting them at risk of identity theft The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity […]

Report details how many organizations lack faith in their security systems to manage an ever-expanding digital landscape. […]

A researcher has just published a zero-day security bug in one of the web's most popular database administration software packages. […]

IBM has boosted its growing stable of quantum computers with a new 53-quantum bit (qubit) device, the most powerful ever offered for commercial use. […]