Security News > 2016 > October

Moldovan Dridex millionaires to spend 12 years in jail (The Register)
2016-10-05 14:37

Yahoo allegedly scanned incoming emails for US intelligence (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:55

While the other tech giants rush to refute involvement Yahoo remains muted.

Facebook rolls out encryption for Messenger, but it's not as private as you think (TechRepublic)
2016-10-05 13:52

53% of DDoS attacks result in additional compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:45

DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations, according to Neustar. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to...

Airbnb, Snapgoods and 12 More Pioneers Of The Share Economy (Forbes)
2016-10-05 13:37

Slice Offers On-Demand Insurance To Cover Home Sharing Hell (Forbes)
2016-10-05 13:37

Unmasking Tor users with DNS (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:36

The DefecTor attack uses DNS lookups to create a new spin on correlation attacks.

Checklist: IoT security and privacy (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:30

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released the consumer IoT security and privacy checklist, which contains steps consumers can take to help increase the security, privacy and safety of their...

Facebook Messenger end-to-end encryption rolled out for all users (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:15

Facebook Messenger’s Secret Conversations feature, which allows end-to-end encryption of messages exchanged by two users that have enabled the option, has finally been rolled out to all Messenger...

Mirai “internet of things” malware from Krebs DDoS attack goes open source (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:08

Seems that the recent mega-DDoS against cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs came from insecure routers, cameras, even printers.