Security News > 2017 > March

DOJ Dismisses Playpen Case to Keep Tor Hack Private (Threatpost)
2017-03-06 20:33

Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice dropped their case against a suspect who visited the dark web site child pornography site Playpen.

Howard Schmidt (Schneier on Security)
2017-03-06 20:15

Longtime Internet security-policy pioneer Howard Schmidt died on Friday. He will be missed....

Spammer’s Leaky Backup Exposes Massive Empire (Threatpost)
2017-03-06 19:57

A massive spam operation that sent out more than one billion messages a day was exposed by researchers who called the operation "illegal" and a “tangible threat to online privacy and security.”

Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose (Threatpost)
2017-03-06 19:27

Kaspersky Lab released details about new wiper malware called StoneDrill that bears similarities to Shamoon2 and an APT outfit known as NewsBeef.