Nearly a week after Marriott disclosed a massive breach of its Starwood reservation system, customers complain that the company has not communicated with them to tell them whether they are affected. Marriott says it is sending “rolling” emails to hundreds of millions of victim
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Nigerian ISP Hijacks Google Traffic, Sends It Through Russia and China
A small Nigerian Internet service provider (ISP) hijacked traffic meant for Google data centers on Monday, re-routing local traffic through China and Russia and making some hosted services temporarily unavailable for users.
Podcast Episode 118: White Hat Eye on the Gaming Guy
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:57 — 59.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSIn this week’s episode, #118: modern computer games are like mini economies and that makes them a big target for hackers. We talk with four leading researchers from Bug Crowd about how even popular games fall down on security. Also: Srinivas Mukkamala, the CEO of RiskSense about how artificial intelligence and risk based approaches to securing elections systems could pay off.
Report: Obvious Security Flaws Make ICS Networks Easy Targets
Industrial control systems (ICSs) remain easy targets for nation-states actors because of security gaps such as plain-text passwords, direct Internet connections and weak anti-virus protections, a new report has found.
Podcast Episode 116: Cryptojacking and MikroTik’s Bad-Feeling Feel Good Patch Story
MikroTik is part of a bigger problem: the failure of infrastructure owners to take appropriate action to address serious security holes in products.