Security News > 2016 > December
BBC.com reports that squid are proliferating around the North Sea, and speculates that they will become an increasingly common British dinner. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
Joint report “Grizzly Steppe” implicates Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in U.S. election-related hacking.
Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHPMailer and SwiftMailer, libraries used to send emails via PHP, were patched this week.
Threatpost writers recap 2016's biggest news stories, including the proliferation of IoT botnets, ransomware, the FBI vs. Apple story, and more.
Nice article on the 2011 DigiNotar attack and how it changed security practices in the CA industry....
Ransomware, insecure connected devices, bug bounties and governments buying bugs: All four ceased to be novelties in 2016; they’re all new normals for cybersecurity.
Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's new anti-censorship feature...
A new Android Trojan, Switcher, uses victims' devices to infect WiFi routers and funnel users of the network to malicious sites.
A critical PHPMailer bug tied to the way websites handle email and feedback forms is leaving millions of websites hosted on popular web-publishing platforms such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla...
Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA's PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which...