Security News
Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to...
Breathe easier knowing you've tested your software properly A Google cyrptoboffin is close to releasing a tool that will hopefully make all of us more secure online.…
Oh, and IETF standards got sloshed this week Cisco admins, you thought your week was over, right? Sorry: if you have kit that runs Adaptive Security Appliance software or the Firepower Extensible...
Delay 'in the overall best interest' of Firefox users Mozilla has postponed its plans to distrust all legacy digital certificates from Symantec, spreading dismay in security circles.…
Bloody SSL...it's the final countdown Hundreds of high-profile websites are still unprepared for the total disavowal of legacy Symantec-issued digital certificates that will kick in with the...
Domain validation systems fooled by boffins Updated Researchers in Germany have discovered how to obtain HTTPS security certificates for web domains they don't own – even if the certs are...
Oh it's for a calculator app? OK, wink wink, say no more Trusted code-signing certificates are being sold to miscreants by allegedly unscrupulous vendors, fueling a growth in digitally signed...
'Typeframe' springs from the same den as 'Hidden Cobra' The United States Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned against another malware campaign...
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University this week announced the launch of a new version of the network traffic analysis tool CERT Tapioca. read more
Attorney and former CIA case officer Jack Rice explains how foreign actors could attack critical infrastructure, and how US intelligence agencies deploy a proportional response to cyber attacks.