Security News > 2016 > December
![The rising use of personal identities in the workplace (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
90% of enterprise IT professionals are concerned that employee reuse of personal credentials for work purposes could compromise security. However, with 68% saying they would be comfortable...
![Let's Encrypt Is Making Web Encryption Easier (Schneier on Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
That's the conclusion of a research paper: Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk, thus quickly...
![Should security vendors offer product guarantees? (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
A new Vanson Bourne survey of 500 businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany revealed that nine in ten companies want to see IT security vendors offer a guarantee on their products and services,...
![Consumers regularly share passcodes, creating compromising situations (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/hackers-statistics-small.jpg)
Consumers keep more and more sensitive personal and professional information on their mobile phones, but most people remain alarmingly casual about adequately protecting that private content,...
![Law Enforcement Targets Users of DDoS-For-Hire Services (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/DDoS-small.jpg)
Law enforcement from more than a dozen countries last week carried out a series of operations designed to crack down on DDoS-for-hire services.
![Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/web-statistics-2-small.jpg)
Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.
![Beta Firmware Updates Available for Vulnerable Netgear Routers (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/web-statistics-3-small.jpg)
Netgear has built beta firmware updates for its Nighthawk routers vulnerable to a command injection attack disclosed last week.
![Microsoft Patches Publicly Disclosed IE, Edge Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)](/static/build/img/news/alt/application-stats-small.jpg)
Microsoft patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not used in attacks as of yet.
![Netgear pushes out beta firmware for vulnerable router models (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-breach-statistics-small.jpg)
Netgear has confirmed that eight of its router models are vulnerable to device hijacking due to a vulnerability that can be easily exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers. The vulnerability...
![More Android-powered devices found with Trojans in their firmware (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/hackers-statistics-small.jpg)
Doctor Web researchers have discovered two types of downloader Trojans that have been incorporated in the firmware of a number of Android-powered devices. Both Trojans are capable of contacting...