Security News > 2017 > March

Privacy Advocates Vow to Fight Rollback of Broadband Privacy Rules (Threatpost)
2017-03-24 17:59

Privacy activists say rolling-back ISP privacy rules means health, financial and browsing habits can be used, shared and sold to the highest bidder without consent.

Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication (Threatpost)
2017-03-24 17:46

Instagram became the latest in a long line of services over the years to offer users two-factor authentication.

Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks (Krebs on Security)
2017-03-24 16:03

A recent, massive spike in sophisticated and successful phishing attacks is prompting many universities to speed up timetables for deploying mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) -- requiring...

Google to sanction Symantec for misissuing security certificates (Help Net Security)
2017-03-24 15:40

In a post on a developers’ forum, software engineer on the Google Chrome team Ryan Sleevi has announced Google’s plan to start gradually distrust all existing Symantec-issued certificates, and...

GoDaddy acquires Sucuri (Help Net Security)
2017-03-24 14:50

GoDaddy has entered into an agreement to purchase Sucuri, a provider of website security products and services. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Sucuri is a security...

Threatpost News Wrap, March 27, 2017 (Threatpost)
2017-03-24 14:45

The latest Wikileaks dump of Apple hacking tools, the LastPass vulnerabilities, and a new Android security report are discussed.