Security News > 2016 > September

'Syrian Electronic Army' goon extradited from Germany now coughs to hacking, extortion (The Register)
2016-09-29 21:36

Security Intelligence and the Critical Security Controls v6 (SANS Reading Room)
2016-09-29 20:36

U.S. to open new vetting agency for 'secret' security clearances (Yahoo Security)
2016-09-29 20:36

PORTKnockOut: Data Exfiltration via Port Knocking over UDP (SANS Reading Room)
2016-09-29 20:06

Backdoored D-Link Router Should be Trashed, Researcher Says (Threatpost)
2016-09-29 20:04

A researcher who found a slew of vulnerabilities in a popular router says it’s so hopelessly broken that consumers who own them should throw them away.

Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim (Help Net Security)
2016-09-29 19:59

The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat intelligence firm InfoArmor....

Zerodium Triples its iOS 10 Bounty to $1.5 Million (Threatpost)
2016-09-29 19:08

Zerodium tripled the bounty it offers for an Apple iOS 10 remote jailbreak, boosting the reward to $1.5 million.

Dridex Banking Trojan Adopts Improved Encryption (SecurityWeek)
2016-09-29 18:51

Microsoft sees rise in secret government data demands (ZDNet)
2016-09-29 18:36

Yahoo Challenged on Claims Breach Was State-Sponsored Attack (Threatpost)
2016-09-29 18:15

Experts challenge Yahoo's assertion that state-sponsored hackers were behind a 2014 breach that resulted in 500 million lost records.