Security News > 2017 > January

Smart, safe data sharing will power the new economy (Help Net Security)
2017-01-05 14:48

Companies need to accept tradeoffs to foster “digital trust” with employees if they want to gather the workplace data necessary to realize the full economic and competitive benefits of the...

IoT Trust Framework: The foundation for future IoT certification programs (Help Net Security)
2017-01-05 14:30

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its updated IoT Trust Framework. Serving as a product development and risk assessment guide for developers, purchasers and retailers of Internet of things...

Claudio Guarnieri on Security Without Borders (Threatpost)
2017-01-05 14:00

Security researcher and activist Claudio Guarnieri talks to Mike Mimoso about a new project announced last week at the Chaos Communication Congress called Security Without Borders.

Wi-Fi risks: Delivering a secure hotspot (Help Net Security)
2017-01-05 12:30

The fact that Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity hints at how long Wi-Fi has been around, but it was only in 1999 that the Wi-Fi Alliance formed as a trade association to hold the Wi-Fi trademark,...

Cryptographic Capabilities of the Barbie Typewriter (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-05 11:58

They're not much, but they do exist....

An SQL Injection Attack Is a Legal Company Name in the UK (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-04 21:17

Someone just registered their company name as ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD. Reddit thread. Obligatory xkcd comic....

FTC Issues Public Challenge to Improve IoT Patching (Threatpost)
2017-01-04 20:44

The FTC announced the IoT Home Inspector Challenge, a contest with the goal of coming up with a patching solution fit for consumer-grade connected devices used in the home.

What Hack? Burlington Electric Speaks Out (Threatpost)
2017-01-04 19:01

Burlington Electric Department general manager Neale Lunderville speaks out about last week's incident and response to reports the electric grid had been hacked.

Google Patches 29 Critical Android Vulnerabilities Including Holes in Mediaserver, Qualcomm (Threatpost)
2017-01-04 18:33

Google patched a critical hole in its problematic Android Mediaserver component that could have allowed an attacker to use email, web browsing, and MMS processing of media files to remotely execute code.

Costin Raiu on the Importance of Using YARA (Threatpost)
2017-01-04 14:30

Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu talks about the benefits of taking the YARA training class available at SAS 2017.