Security News > 2016

75% of organisations set fixed time limits for investigating potential security incidents, according to Balabit. However, 44% of respondents reported missing internal or external deadlines for...

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Malvertising campaign compromises routers instead of computers The attackers current main goal is to change DNS...

A hacker offered to sell an unpatched system vulnerability in the U.S. Election Assistance Commission website on the Dark Web for “thousands” of dollars.

This is what passes for news these days. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

A remote code execution bug in Ubuntu Desktop was patched; the vulnerability affected all default installations of Quantal version 12.10 and later.

Nagios Core has been updated to take care of two critical vulnerabilities that can be pinned together to attack servers hosting the open source IT infrastructure monitoring software.

The insecurity of WordPress plugins has been well documented, especially over the last year, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not as bad as it seems, experts claim.

What’s so special about the letter S? It’s one of the most frequently used letters in the English language, a regular sponsor of Sesame Street, and is so common that Vanna White automatically...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo's latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.

Ixia enhances network assessment and monitoring platform Ixia’s Hawkeye, which proactively generates and analyzes synthetic network and application traffic to assess how applications and services...