Security News

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Blog writer gets fined 750 for writing about outdated WiFi WEP attacks, Teensy USB's and MD5 cracking.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

Analysts believe Rombertik was used to conceal other malware attacks (SC Magazine)
2015-05-08 19:10

Researchers craft network attack to hack surgical robot (sort of) (ArsTechnica)
2015-05-08 17:10

Black Hat USA 2015: Targeted Attacks (Dark Reading)
2015-05-08 16:10