CVE-2026-6870

A flaw was found in Wireshark. A user processing a specially crafted GSM RP protocol dissector file or network traffic could trigger a crash, leading to a denial of service. Mitigation To mitigate this issue, avoid opening untrusted network capture files or analyzing network traffic from untruste...

Users Can Be Just As Dangerous As Hackers

Among the problems stemming from our systemic failure with cybersecurity, which ranges from decades-old software-development practices to Chinese and Russian cyber-attacks, one problem gets far less attention than it should—the insider threat. But the reality is that most organizations should be ...

Compliance joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA)

Like many of you, I’m thrilled to have my 2020 calendar safely in the recycling pile. During that time though, you too might have noticed how, perhaps unknowingly, you were able to turn some of last year’s lemons into lemonade. Maybe you developed a deeper appreciation for everyday moments and th...

New LTE Network Flaw Could Let Attackers Impersonate 4G Mobile Users

A group of academics from Ruhr University Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi have uncovered security flaws in 4G LTE and 5G networks that could potentially allow hackers to impersonate users on the network and even sign up for paid subscriptions on their behalf. The impersonation attack —...

FBI on Encryption: 'It's A Business Model Question'

Now that encryption has been elevated to a default technology on mobile devices, the government has heightened its “Going Dark” rhetoric, again on Wednesday insisting during a Senate Judicial Committee hearing that Silicon Valley figure out how to deliver plain-text communication between criminal...

NSA Stole Millions Of SIM Card Encryption Keys To Gather Private Data

Edward Snowden is back with one of the biggest revelations about the government's widespread surveillance program. The US National Security Agency NSA and British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ hacked into the networks of the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, accordi...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Modules Disclosed

The Regin malware platform used to steal secrets from government agencies, banks and GSM network operators caught the attention of security experts who called it one of the most advanced attack platforms that has been studied, surpassing Flame, Duqu, even Stuxnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sai...