Security researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in networked refrigeration used by supermarkets and hospitals that could allow a hacker to change temperature settings. Detailed by researchers from Safety Detective Thursday, the vulnerability allows for remote attacks from the internet because many owners fail to change default passwords or implement other security measures. Using the Shodan search ...

Google LLC has started rolling out a new augmented reality feature in Google Maps to some users after first teasing the technology at its I/O conference in May. The feature allows users to point their device and have Google Maps overlay the direction they need to walk. Although there have been various apps over the years ...

A vulnerability in Google LLC’s Android operating system can allow hackers to hijack a device by simply displaying an infected PNG image file. The vulnerability, found in Android 7.0 Nougat through to Android 9.0 Pie, was first disclosed by Google in an Android Security Bulletin published Feb. 4. Google was reserved in providing specific details ...

In yet another case of cloud storage misconfiguration, private pictures shared by users of gay dating app Jack’d have been found exposed to all and sundry on an Amazon Web Services Inc. instance. Jack’d is a gay dating app that connects gay guys wanting to meet or hookup worldwide with more than 1 million downloads from the ...

Shares in Twitter dropped by nearly 10 percent in trading today as the company revealed another drop in user numbers and said it expects expenses to rise. The data came from Twitter’s fourth-quarter financial results, which beat market expectations in terms of revenue and profit. For the fourth quarter, Twitter booked revenue of $909 million versus ...

Autonomous network security startup Netography Inc. said today it has raised $2.6 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz as it emerges from stealth mode. Founded last year by Barrett Lyon (pictured), a pioneer in distributed denial-of-service mitigation, and Dan Murphy, a 20-year security industry veteran, Neography is pitching itself an enterprise security “Eye in the ...

A new report from identity cloud provider Okta Inc. has found that in the age of growing awareness of security risks, security applications are growing in popularity. The findings come from Okta’s 2019 Business@Work report released today, which detailed data from more than 5,500 Okta customer app integrations. In the top three spots for fastest ...

Six weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in the hacking group APT10, security researchers have detailed a campaign from the group that targeted systems in the U.S. and Norway. Detailed today in a report written by researchers at Recorded Future Inc. and Rapid7 Inc., the APT10 “sustained campaign” ran between ...

An 18-year-old German security researcher has published details of a serious vulnerability in macOS but refused to share the details with Apple as a protest against the company’s not having a bug bounty program. The researcher, Linus Henze, demonstrated the “KeySteal” vulnerability on video, claiming that it was a macOS Mojave exploit that allowed access ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. beat market expectations with its fourth-quarter earnings today but lowered estimates for the first quarter. Investors didn’t seem to mind. For the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, Fortinet reported net income of $182.8 million, or $1.04 a share, compared with a loss of $29 million, or 17 cents a share, in the same quarter in ...