August 2018

The Threatpost team debriefs on the top news and topics from last week’s Black Hat and DEF CON conferences. Read More

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) has been uncovered that would allow malicious actors to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) safeguards. Many organizations Read More

An Instagram hack is spreading across the internet, with increasing numbers of victims finding their accounts hijacked and personal details altered — and account recovery Read More

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, has exposed high-level configuration information for tens of thousands of systems (and competitively sensitive pricing options for running Read More

Three new speculative execution design flaws in Intel CPUs were disclosed today, this time impacting Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology, its OS and system Read More

Microsoft has rolled out its August Patch Tuesday fixes, addressing 19 critical vulnerabilities, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are under active attack. Overall, Read More

LAS VEGAS – By tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher stumbled on an Apple zero-day that could allow a local attacker to virtually Read More

When we order food online, book a plane ticket or purchase seats for a show, we often get an email confirmation with a handy link Read More

LAS VEGAS – In recent years there has been more attention paid to the security of medical devices; however, there has been little security research Read More

Smart-city technology continues to roll out in municipalities worldwide – everything from automated alerts about weather hazards and traffic issues to smart lighting and connected Read More