Security News > 2015 > August

Pentagon's unclassified email system breached, Russian hackers blamed (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 10:12

Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system, used by 4,000 military and civilian personnel, has been compromised by attackers, and it has been taken offline until the threat is dealt with. Acc...

The GasPot experiment: Hackers target gas tanks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 08:31

Physically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set everything ablaze. But imagi...

Vulnerabilities in 2015: 0-days, Android vs iOS, OpenSSL (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 08:17

Secunia has taken an early peek at the trend in vulnerabilities for 2015, and has presented the results at Black Hat USA 2015. Seven months into the year, the number of detected zero-day vulnerabiliti...

Getting BYOD right (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 07:44

According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with B2B International, around half of the consumers surveyed also use their devices for work. However, only one in 10 is seriously conc...

Disrupting trust models: An evolution in the financial services sector (Help Net Security)
2015-08-07 07:05

The way we interact with service providers – whether travel organisations, music suppliers or retailers – has changed to be almost unrecognisable from five years’ ago. From Uber to Spotify to Airbnb, ...