Will Mozilla layoffs affect security of Firefox browser?
The Mozilla Corporation, responsible for the Firefox browser, has laid off 250 staff and moved 60 others to different teams. The reason given, unsurprisingly, is the impact of COVID-19. The company...
Facebook makes outrageous statements in Vienna court
Last week Facebook, or to be more precise Cecilia Alvarez, EMEA Privacy Policy Director at Facebook, was answering questions under oath in the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters. Alvarez was...
Security news from the week beginning 12th December 2022
Security news from the week beginning 12th December includes research by @CheckPointSW, @Ivanti, @Logpoint, and @Microsoft
Centene loses hard drives with user data
US healthcare provider Centene has admitted to losing six hard drives containing the healthcare records of over 950,000 customers. The company insists that no payment information was lost but does admit...
Bitbucket Cloud gets more secure
Atlassian has released Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication for Bitbucket Cloud according to a blog by TJ Kells. This is based on the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance U2F standard. It...
Ransomware infections doubled Q3 2016
In its latest quarterly IT threat evolution report, Kaspersky Lab has reported that encrypting ransomware infections doubled in Q3 2016. This is a significant acceleration in the number of users encountering...
Oil and gas industry gets IIoT cyber security solution
Waterfall Security Solutions has announced it is to protect LogiLube customers from cyber attack. The deal will see Waterfall Unidirectional Security Gateways (USG) deployed to LogiLube customer sites. Waterfall says its...
Exploits have aggressive shape-shifting abilities
The latest Dell Security Annual Threat Report (registration required) pulls no punches. It makes it clear that cyber criminals are taking advantage of shape-shifting techniques to make their exploits harder to track...
Christian Koch on the security challenges of IOT and OT
At the NTT Security University event in Germany, Christian Koch talked to Enterprise Times about the security challenges from IOT and OT. It is a challenge that is just as complex...
IoT devices get R2D2 upgrade
Unified communications and social collaboration platform Unified Inbox (UIB) is adopting technology to allow IoT devices to talk to each other. UIB has successfully integrated technology from Chirp into its UnificationEngine. The...