Security News

Decade-Old VENOM Bug Exposes Virtualized Environments to Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2015-05-13 15:10

Data breaches lead to surge of spoofing attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-05-13 09:36

The number of attacks on businesses is trending up as crimeware tools gain traction providing tools to fraudsters to automate cybercrime attacks leveraging the customer data made available from breach...

US DoD Report Claims China is Developing Tools to Attack Critical Infrastructure (May 11, 2015) (SANS Newsbites)
2015-05-12 21:10

NSA chief confirms physical retaliation could be warranted in cyber attack response (SC Magazine)
2015-05-12 19:10

Home Automation Software Z-Way Vulnerable to Remote Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-05-12 13:41

A researcher warns users of the extensible Z-Way controller project that a weakness built into the software could easily expose it to attacks.

Man charged with attempted spear-phishing attack on U.S. Department of Energy (Help Net Security)
2015-05-12 10:21

An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in connection with an attempted email...

Elasticsearch Honeypot Snares 8,000 Attacks Against RCE Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2015-05-11 17:18

Hackers are exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Elasticsearch, according to one researcher who published logs from a honeypot he built showing 8,000 attempts to exploit the bug.

Russia, China promise not to launch cyber-attacks at each other (ZDNet)
2015-05-11 15:10

60 Days of Watching Hackers Attack Elasticsearch (Reddit)
2015-05-11 02:10

Blog writer gets fined 750 for writing about outdated WiFi WEP attacks, Teensy USB's and MD5 cracking. French (Reddit)
2015-05-09 00:10