Security News > 2015 > August

Payment card info of 93,000 Web.com customers stolen (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 12:48

The name, address, and credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers of Web.com, a popular US-based provider of Internet services to small businesses, has been compromised due to a breach ...

Most security executives lack confidence in their security posture (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 11:57

A new Raytheon|Websense survey of security executives at large companies in the U.S. reveals that confidence in their enterprise security posture is lacking. According to the 100 security executi...

Stolen Ashley Madison data dumped online, seems legitimate (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 11:16

As you might have heard by now, some 10 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen in last month's Ashley Madison hack have been leaked by the attackers on the Dark Web and on Torrent file-sharing services. ...

Microsoft issues emergency patch for IE flaw exploited in the wild (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 09:47

Microsoft has pushed out an emergency out-of-band Internet Explorer update, which fixes a critical memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2015-2502) that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wi...

The insider versus the outsider: Who poses the biggest security risk? (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 08:00

Today, many organizations are under continuous attack from nation-states or professional cyber criminals. One of the main focuses for IT security teams is stopping intruders from gaining access to ass...

The unstoppable rise of DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 07:09

For the past three quarters, there has been a doubling in the number of DDoS attacks year over year, according to Akamai. And while attackers favored less powerful but longer duration attacks this qua...

Keep your site more secure with WordPress 4.3 (Help Net Security)
2015-08-19 07:00

WordPress 4.3, named Billie in honor of jazz singer Billie Holiday, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. The new version enables you to keep your site more secure with...