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Organizations Are Still Failing to Upgrade Systems and Enforce Patches, Study Finds

Armis, a Palo Alto-based company that aims to help organizations eliminate the blind spots introduced by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday.

Google announced on Monday the availability of Chrome 59, a version that brings several design and functionality improvements, and fixes for tens of vulnerabilities.

The status LEDs present on networking equipment such as routers and switches can be abused to exfiltrate sensitive data from air-gapped systems at relatively high bit rates, researchers have demonstrated.

The Kremlin on Tuesday strongly denied a leaked US report that Russian military intelligence hackers tried to infiltrate into US voting systems before last year's presidential election.

Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently conceded that patriotic Russian hackers may have been involved in the DNC hacks last year. "If they are patriotically minded, they start making their contributions - which are right, from their point of view - to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia."

The Williams Grand Prix Engineering team currently owns the record for the fastest pit stop in Formula One at 1.92 seconds. Think about that. In the time it takes you to blink twice, a car pulls in, has 4 wheels taken off and a fresh set put on and drives away. That’s mind-blowingly fast.

A group of researchers and security firms led by RSA delivered a significant blow to the infrastructure used by the notorious RIG exploit kit and the operation has allowed experts to learn more about the threat.

A federal contractor has been charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday.

A top secret National Security Agency document shows that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election, The Intercept reported Monday.

Yahoo has awarded thousands of dollars to a couple of researchers who managed to find serious vulnerabilities in the company’s systems. The bug bounty hunters published blog posts over the weekend describing their findings.

Change Two to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM 2) came into force at the end of May 2017. One of the biggest changes involves a new requirement for contractors to implement extensive insider threat training for all staff with access to government classified information. These new requirements are specified in section 3-103.

Google announced on Friday the dates and prizes for the company’s second annual capture the flag (CTF) competition.The qualifying round, for which nearly 200 teams have already signed up, will take place on June 17 and 18. The top 10 teams will be invited to one of Google’s offices for the final round.

Cybercriminals have been leveraging a new technique, which involves PowerPoint files and mouseover events, to get users to execute arbitrary code on their systems and download malware.