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Email Scam Losses Pass $3 Billion, FBI Says

The amount of money that enterprises in the United States are losing to business email compromise scams is growing at an alarming rate, and is now well into the billions of dollars, according to the FBI. BEC scams, also known as CEO or executive impersonation schemes, are the evolution of phishing attacks and rely on the criminals’ […]

Google Pushes Encrypted Email System Out Into the World

People have been trying to find a replacement for PGP almost since the day it was released, and with limited success. Encrypted email is still difficult to use and painful to implement in most cases, but Google has just released a Chrome plugin designed to address those problems. The new E2EMail extension doesn’t turn a user’s […]

On the Wire Podcast: Nick Sullivan on the Cloudflare Memory Leak

Cloudflare is one of those companies that most normal Internet users may never have heard of, but rely on every day. The company’s infrastructure protects a large fraction of the global Internet’s sites and so when a bug emerges in its systems, it’s a Big Deal. The memory leak vulnerability that Cloudflare disclosed this week […]

Cloudflare Memory Leak Bug Exposed Private Customer Data

Cloudflare, one of the larger content-delivery networks and DNS providers on the Internet, had a critical bug in one of its services that resulted in sensitive customer data such as cookies, authentication tokens, and encryption keys being leaked and cached by servers around the world. The vulnerability was in an HTML parser that Cloudflare engineers […]

SHA-1 Collision Spells the End for Old Algorithm

Engineers at Google have created the first SHA-1 collision, an achievement that should lay to rest any remaining doubts about the practical security of the hash function. Cryptographers and security researchers have been warning about weaknesses in SHA-1 for several years, saying that modern computing power would soon put a collision within reach. A hash […]

Suspect Arrested in Mirai Attack on Deutsche Telekom Routers

Authorities in the U.K. have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the attack last year on routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom customers, an attack that was attributed to the Mirai botnet. On Wednesday, investigators from the British National Crime Agency arrested an unnamed 29-year-old man at an airport in London in connection with […]

Welcoming John Chambers, Martin Casado and Marc Andreessen

By: Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO, CTO & Co-Founder Pindrop is in a period of hyper-growth. In 2016, Pindrop doubled its customer base and saw revenues increase more than 100% year-over-year. For years, enterprise companies have been investing heavily in both physical and cyber security, leaving one place where customer information is not as protected – call […]

Google Releases Upspin Secure File-Sharing Tool

Google has published a new open-source tool called Upspin that enables users to share files and other content securely across networks without the need for uploading and downloading. Unlike existing systems such as Dropbox or Google Drive, Upspin isn’t really a separate file storage and retrieval service. Instead, Google describes it as a global namespace […]

Netflix Releases Stethoscope Security Tool

Netflix has released a new security application that’s designed to give normal users detailed information about the security state of their various devices and help them remedy any issues, without going to IT or a help desk. Stethoscope is a Web-based tool that the company says is part of its user-focused security ethos, and Netflix has […]