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• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  WPA3 Wi-Fi protocol aims to improve security in 2018

  The new WPA3 Wi-Fi protocol aims to improve security for IoT devices and strengthen password security with protections against brute force attacks.

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Risk & Repeat: Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities shake industry

  In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and their effect on information security.

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Spectre patches highlight January 2018 Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft's January 2018 Patch Tuesday brings Meltdown and Spectre patches to users, except those on AMD chipsets or those with incompatible antivirus.

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  NIST botnet security report recommendations open for comments

  Federal agencies opened public comments on a draft botnet security report born from the 2017 White House cybersecurity executive order, and experts are generally favorable.

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Intel keynote misses the mark on Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

  With CEO Brian Krzanich's keynote at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel missed an opportunity for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

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• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Huge coordinated vulnerability disclosure needed for Meltdown

  Unprecedented Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws required a vast coordinated vulnerability disclosure effort over six months and across dozens of organizations.

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  A DHS data breach exposed PII of over 250,000 people

  News roundup: A DHS data breach exposed PII of 250,000 federal employees, as well as investigative data from 2002 to 2014. Plus, a new bill aims to nix paperless voting, and more.

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Meltdown and Spectre patches and mitigations released

  Vendors released the vulnerability disclosures and patches for the new Meltdown and Spectre CPU attacks as the infosec industry begins mitigating risks.

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Intel CPU flaw gets third-party patch but no details

  Release of a third-party patch for a mysterious Intel CPU flaw led to many questions but few answers, and details on the issue may not be imminent.

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Risk & Repeat: The TLS 1.3 clock continues to click

  In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the long wait for TLS 1.3 and the effects -- positive and negative -- the delays have had for enterprise security.

• January 02, 2018 02 Jan'18

  IOHIDeous is a macOS zero-day for the new year

  A newly discovered macOS zero-day flaw, called IOHIDeous, affects all versions of Apple's desktop operating system and can allow for full-system compromise.

• December 29, 2017 29 Dec'17

  Browser login managers allow tracking scripts to steal credentials

  News roundup: Login managers enable the exposure of user credentials in over 1,000 websites. Plus, Mozilla patched a critical vulnerability in Thunderbird, and more.

• December 29, 2017 29 Dec'17

  Official TLS 1.3 release date: Still waiting, and that's OK

  Protocol scrutiny is good for the upcoming TLS 1.3 update as the process continues to expose, and fix, problems.

• December 29, 2017 29 Dec'17

  Risk & Repeat: Cybersecurity predictions for 2018

  In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors offer their cybersecurity predictions for 2018, including forecasts for cryptojacking, DDoS attacks and other threats.

• December 28, 2017 28 Dec'17

  After 2017, data breach fatigue should be a thing of the past

  Data breach fatigue should be put on hold after the Equifax data breach and Uber hack taught us painful lessons about enterprise security shortcomings.