Security News > 2015 > August

Script injection vulnerability discovered in Salesforce (Help Net Security)
2015-08-13 08:15

Elastica discovered an injection vulnerability in Salesforce which opened the door for attackers to use a trusted Salesforce application as a platform to conduct phishing attacks to steal end-users' l...

Dropbox adds support for FIDO U2F secure authentication (Help Net Security)
2015-08-13 08:12

Cloud storage giant Dropbox announced to its 400 million users that it supports FIDO U2F for strong two-factor authentication. Dropbox users can now protect their files with U2F-powered devices i...

Addressing IoT risks with a trust framework (Help Net Security)
2015-08-13 08:01

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its Internet of Things Trust Framework, the first global, multi-stakeholder effort to address IoT risks comprehensively. The framework presents guidelines f...

Impact and scope of fraud that crosses multiple industries (Help Net Security)
2015-08-13 07:58

84 percent of fraud mitigation professionals interviewed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions see fraud that crosses multiple industries in their investigations. Multi-industry fraud has a moderate to hi...

Facebook Awards $100,000 for New Class of Vulnerabilities and Detection Tool (Threatpost)
2015-08-12 23:00

Facebook doubles the payout of its Internet Defense Prize with a $100,000 award to a team of Georgia Tech researchers for a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and a...