Security News

TeamViewer Denies Hack, Blames Password Reuse for Compromises (Threatpost)
2016-06-02 15:49

TeamViewer continues to refute claims this week it was hacked and instead claims that password reuse and careless user actions may have led to a scourge of hacks.

Protecting Cloud APIs Critical to Mitigating Total Compromise (Threatpost)
2016-05-19 18:20

When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or less drive everything, but in the eyes of some researchers, existing security controls haven't kept pace.

Bug in Symantec’s anti-virus engine can lead to system compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-05-17 15:48

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has unearthed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the anti-virus engine powering Symantec’s endpoint security products (including...

SAP vulnerability exploited to compromise enterprises worldwide (Help Net Security)
2016-05-11 21:50

A SAP vulnerability, patched over five years ago, is being leveraged to exploit SAP systems of many large-scale global enterprises, US-CERT warns. At least 36 organizations in the US, the UK,...

Misunderstanding Indicators of Compromise (Threatpost)
2016-04-21 13:00

In this Threatpost op-ed, Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter explain the dangers of conflating measurable events, or observables, with indicators of compromise, which require context and other...