Security News > 2016 > December

New infosec products of the week​: December 2, 2016 (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 13:30

Trend Micro offers Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace Trend Micro announced the availability of Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace. This new Trend Micro offering...

Massive cybercrime infrastructure demolished (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 13:00

After more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police in cooperation with the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania,...

Online credit card fraud up 20% Black Friday to Cyber Monday (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 12:45

Iovation released new data that shows card-not-present fraud increased significantly from Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2016 when compared to the same period in past years. Research shows a 20...

Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-02 12:39

Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The good news is that we know how to...

50% of enterprises will be cloud-first by 2021 (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 12:30

SailPoint surveyed customers and attendees at this week’s Gartner IAM Summit about their plans for cloud adoption in the next five years. Of the 100 survey respondents, 30 percent plan to...

Insecure pacemakers can be easily hacked (Help Net Security)
2016-12-01 21:37

A group of researchers has discovered that it’s not that difficult for a “weak adversary” with limited resources and capabilities to fiddle with or even shut down a variety of insecure pacemakers...

SAMRi10: Windows 10 hardening tool for thwarting network recon (Help Net Security)
2016-12-01 20:20

Microsoft researchers Itay Grady and Tal Be’ery have released another tool to help admins harden their environment against reconnaissance attacks: SAMRi10 (pronounced “Samaritan”). User2...

Rule 41 Opponents Vow to Fight Government’s New Hacking Powers (Threatpost)
2016-12-01 20:17

Opponents of the controversial Rule 41 say they are committed to fighting the government’s expanded powers.

Next level red teaming: Working behind enemy lines (Help Net Security)
2016-12-01 18:18

The term “hacker” calls forth both positive and negative mental pictures, but I can bet that there are not many people, even in the infosec community, to whom the term generates the image of a guy...

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users (Threatpost)
2016-12-01 17:00

Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users.