Security News

Cyber attack on U.S. power grid could rack up $1 trillion in losses, study says (SC Magazine)
2015-07-08 23:12

Hacking Team Zero-Day Attack Hits Flash (InfoRiskToday)
2015-07-08 20:01

Analysts find exploits in Hacking Team leaks, investigate zero-day attacks (SC Magazine)
2015-07-07 21:12

Italian Surveillance Software Maker Falls Victim To Doxing Attack (Dark Reading)
2015-07-06 23:22

Oracle PeopleSoft attack could enable big data breaches (SC Magazine)
2015-07-06 23:22

Default Account Exposes Cisco Unified CDM Users to Remote Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2015-07-02 17:34

Rise in DDoS reflection attacks using abandoned routing protocol (Help Net Security)
2015-07-02 07:21

There's been an increase in the use of outdated Routing Information Protocol version one (RIPv1) for reflection and amplification attacks, according to Akamai. RIPv1 is a fast, easy way to dynamica...

Attackers Revive Deprecated RIPv1 Routing Protocol in DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-07-01 16:45

An advisory from Akamai warns of a recent reflection style DDoS attack in which the deprecated RIPv1 routing protocol was leveraged against targets.

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...