Security News > 2016 > December

New infosec products of the week​: December 9, 2016 (Help Net Security)
2016-12-09 13:15

Thales releases advanced encryption solutions for secure docker containers Thales released new capabilities for its Vormetric Data Security Platform. These advances extend data-at-rest security...

Yahoo Mail XSS Bug Worth Another $10K to Researcher (Threatpost)
2016-12-09 13:00

Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen found a second stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail in less than a year, both of which earned him $10,000 bug bounties.

Exploring data security in the legal sector and beyond (Help Net Security)
2016-12-09 13:00

BitSight analyzed the Security Ratings of more than 20,000 organizations in six industries – Finance, Legal, Healthcare, Retail, Government and Energy. The objective was to highlight quantifiable...

Six tips for practicing safe social media (Help Net Security)
2016-12-09 12:45

With Facebook now counting over 1.7 billion monthly users and LinkedIn another 467 million, it was only a matter of time until criminal hackers turned their attention to exploiting social media as...

80% of digital publishers don’t know how their web traffic is audited (Help Net Security)
2016-12-09 12:30

The burden of proof is on publishers to defend their web traffic, yet 80 percent admit they don’t have insight into how their traffic is audited, raising questions about which traffic is non-human...

Cybersecurity advice for the nuclear industry (Help Net Security)
2016-12-08 20:12

Less complexity, an active defense, transformative research, and institutionalized cybersecurity should be nuclear industry’s key priorities to stem the rising tide of cyber threats. The advice...

Researchers Question Security in AMD’s Upcoming Zen Chips (Threatpost)
2016-12-08 18:22

Two German researchers are calling into question the security afforded by AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature debuting in the chip maker's upcoming Zen server chips.

Announced: Independent OpenVPN security audit (Help Net Security)
2016-12-08 17:37

VPN service Private Internet Access (PIA) has just announced that they have contracted noted and well-reputed cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green to perform a security audit of OpenVPN. OpenVPN is an...

OpenVPN to Undergo Cryptographic Audit (Threatpost)
2016-12-08 17:19

Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry out an audit of OpenVPN.

New NSA Stories (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-08 17:04

Le Monde and the Intercept are reporting about NSA spying in Africa, and NSA spying on in-flight mobile phone calls -- both from the Snowden documents....