Security News

Researchers find backdoor bug in NASA rovers' real-time OS (Help Net Security)
2015-09-14 13:06

A critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in VxWorks, the world's most popular real-time operating system (RTOS), can be exploited by attackers to gain backdoor access to the systems using it. ...

63% in favor of encryption backdoors to respond to national security threats (Help Net Security)
2015-09-11 07:30

Vormetric did a survey on how Americans view "backdoor" access by government entities to the encrypted data of private businesses. Ninety-one percent recognized that there were risks to encryption bac...

49 new Regin backdoor modules discovered (Help Net Security)
2015-09-01 13:06

Since Symantec and Kaspersky Lab researchers presented their findings on the Regin backdoor late last year, there has been only one additional publicly revealed sighting of (a part of) the sophisticat...