Security News

Week in review: Sextortion, Firefox 0-day, and next level red teaming (Help Net Security)
2016-12-04 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: McAfee Labs predicts 14 security developments for 2017 Ransomware attacks will decrease in volume and...

Actively exploited Firefox, Tor Browser 0-day patched, update now! (Help Net Security)
2016-12-01 15:48

Mozilla and the Tor Project have released security updates that fix the Firefox 0-day flaw that was spotted being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. It is still unknown who started...

Firefox 0-day exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2016-11-30 17:09

An anonymous user of the SIGAINT darknet email service has revealed the existence of a JavaScript exploit that is apparently being actively used to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The warning came...

Week in review: Actively exploited Windows 0-day, ICS and IoT security (Help Net Security)
2016-11-06 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles: 65% of Windows devices still running Windows 7, released in 2009 To analyze the current state of device...

Week in review: MySQL 0-day, Stingrays, and the end of Patch Tuesday (Help Net Security)
2016-09-18 13:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat While organizations wrestle with the ever-pressing issue of whether to...

MySQL 0-day could lead to total system compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-09-12 19:17

Researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source database MySQL and its forks (e.g. MariaDB, Percona). One of these – CVE-2016-6662 – can...