Security News > 2016 > March

ACLU: FBI wants to 'commandeer' tech companies to hack users (ZDNet)
2016-03-02 22:13

Hack the Pentagon: Hackers asked to help secure public-facing systems (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 21:54

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has invited hackers participate in “Hack the Pentagon”, a program aimed at finding vulnerabilities in some of the Department’s websites. The project is an...

DROWN Flaw Illustrates Dangers of Intentionally Weak Crypto (Threatpost)
2016-03-02 21:10

The massive DROWN vulnerability resurrects fears over lingering export-grade cryptography

Weak default credentials, command injection bug found in building operation software (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 19:58

A vulnerability in servers programmed with Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare Building Operation software can be exploited by a low-skilled, remote attacker to gain access to the servers and make...

The Mathematics of Conspiracy (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-02 18:39

This interesting study tries to build a mathematical model for the continued secrecy of conspiracies, and tries to predict how long before they will be revealed to the general public, either...

Crypto pioneers Diffie and Hellman win Nobel Prize of Computing (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 18:18

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery has announced at RSA Conference that it has awarded crypto pioneers Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award for critical...

Open source risk management tool for Android application packages (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 17:39

Are there any security vulnerabilities in the open source you use? At RSA Conference, WhiteSource announced the release of the industry’s first Android Application Package (APK) Analyzer,...

Only one in five orgs set up to securely manage user identities (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 16:45

As organizations seek to capitalize on digital opportunities through rapidly developing and hosting new services online, they frequently under-invest in adequate cybersecurity measures creating...

Repeat DDoS and web application attacks become the norm (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 16:02

Akamai Technologies has shared the latest DDoS and web application attacks numbers in its Q4 2015 State of the Internet report. DDoS attack activity at a glance During Q4, repeat DDoS attacks were...

UK, US users hit with credit card-themed spam spreading ransomware (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 14:43

Symantec researchers have spotted an unusual ransomware delivery campaign hitting mostly UK and US users: fake emails apparently coming from Visa are urging recipients to “take advantage of even...