Security News

NSA veteran chief fears crippling cyber-attack on Western energy infrastructure
2015-04-27 16:01

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11563746/NSA-veteran-chief-fears-crippling-cyber-attack-on-Western-energy-infrastructure.html By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Houston...

Successful POS attacks are the result of poor security, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 11:57

Most data breaches involving payment card information - and there have been too many in the last two years - can be traced back to a lack of implementation of security measures. Most breaches invol...

How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 10:37

The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China's internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the world's largest code hosting se...

Google Provides Detailed Analysis of GitHub Attack Traffic (Threatpost)
2015-04-24 17:46

The high-profile DDoS attack against GitHub that went on for several days last month was the end result of am operation that included several phases and extensive testing and optimization by the...