Security News > 2016 > November

UK Home Secretary signs extradition order for British hacker Lauri Love (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 15:59

The extradition order for British hacker Lauri Love has been signed on Monday by the UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and Love has 14 days to appeal the decision. The 31-year-old was first arrested...

VMware Patches VM Escape Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2016-11-15 15:54

VMware patched a vulnerability in Workstation and Fusion that could allow an attacker to run code on a host machine.

Preparing for the holiday shopping season? Cybercriminals are getting ready as well (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 14:12

The number of financial phishing attacks is expected to rise during the Holiday shopping season which starts unofficially on Black Friday. Retrospective research by Kaspersky Lab specialists shows...

Weave a web of deception to secure data (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 13:10

Today’s technically superior and incredibly well-funded (often state-funded, in fact) hackers are not impressed with breach prevention and traditional security solutions. Security professionals...

Election Security (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-15 13:09

It's over. The voting went smoothly. As of the time of writing, there are no serious fraud allegations, nor credible evidence that anyone hacked the voting rolls or voting machines. And most...

Review: iStorage diskAshur Pro SSD (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 12:45

The iStorage diskAshur Pro SSD is the hard drive for users with security on their mind. This USB 3.0 device comes in various storage capacities, ranging from 128GB to 1TB, and is certified and...

Waterfall BlackBox: Restoring trust in network information (Help Net Security)
2016-11-15 12:30

Waterfall Security Solutions announced the launch of the Waterfall BlackBox, developed to maintain the integrity of log repositories in the event of a cyber attack. Based on Waterfall’s patented...

Microsoft Bolsters Ransomware Protection in Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Threatpost)
2016-11-14 22:43

Microsoft beefs-up ransomware defenses in Windows 10 Anniversary Update starting with Edge browser and the introduction of an Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) tool for the enterprise.

New users flock to ProtonMail in wake of Trump’s victory (Help Net Security)
2016-11-14 21:38

Following Donald Trump’s victory in the latest US presidential election, many people begun to worry about the surveillance capabilities that will now effectively be left in his hands once he...

Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack (Help Net Security)
2016-11-14 19:28

A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. WindTalker is the name of the attack,...