Security News > 2016 > December

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, videos and articles: The global decline of cybersecurity confidence According to this year’s data, global cybersecurity...

It's called Cryptomancer. Think computer hacking plus magic. I know nothing about it, but it feels reminiscent of Shadowrun. Reddit thread. RPG.net thread....

Squid-inspired electronic screens. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

VPN service Private Internet Access (PIA) announced that they have contracted noted and well-reputed cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green to perform a security audit of OpenVPN. However, it seems that...

A fully functional four-rotor Enigma machine sold for $463,500. Wow....

Researchers say they have uncovered a ransomware sample that is still under development that comes with a novel and nasty twist. Infected victims of the ransomware, known as Popcorn Time, have the...

A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that could be applied to secure electronic voting. Their solution was the winning entry of the...

German-based ThyssenKrupp, one of the world’s largest steel producers, has announced that it has been the target of a cyber attack. The company said that the attack was a professional endeavour...

Organizations spend an average of 5.6 percent of the overall IT budget on IT security and risk management, according to Gartner. However, IT security spending ranges from approximately 1 percent...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux bug, Sony closing backdoors in cameras, and Google's new open source fuzzer.