Security News

EZCast TV streaming stick leaves home networks vulnerable to attack (Help Net Security)
2016-01-08 07:45

Check Point researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the EZCast TV streaming stick that enables hackers to take full control of home networks. EZCast, which has five million users, is a HDMI...

Takedown of criminal gang behind ATM malware attacks (Help Net Security)
2016-01-08 07:21

The Romanian National Police and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crimes and Terrorism (DIICOT), assisted by Europol and Eurojust as well as a number of European Law Enforcement authorities...

SLOTH Attacks Up Ante on SHA-1, MD5 Deprecation (Threatpost)
2016-01-07 15:50

Researchers have demonstrated new collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 implementations in TLS, IKE and SSH.

HTTPS Bicycle attack reveals password length, allows easier brute-forcing (Help Net Security)
2016-01-07 08:32

Dutch security researcher Guido Vranken has come up with a new attack that could allow attackers to discover the length of a user's password - and therefore make it easier to brute-force it - by analy...