Security News

Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-30 11:27

Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative Archival Samples":...

Researcher proves how easy it is to pull off homographic phishing attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 09:32

Security consultant Paul Moore has managed to register a domain that, at first glance, looks like that of UK-based Lloyds Bank, and get a valid TLS certificate for it from CloudFlare. He did so by...

New Chrome Extension Blocks BeEF Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-06-26 17:48

An engineer has come up with a new way to help combat BeEF, or browser exploit framework attacks.

Instapaper for Android vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-06-24 11:17

Bitdefender researchers have discovered that Android app Instapaper is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that could expose users’ signup/login credentials when logging into their accounts. Us...