Security News

Privileged accounts are still easy to compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-08-17 12:00

A Thycotic survey of 201 Black Hat USA 2015 attendees found that a majority (75%) have not seen a fundamental change in the level of difficulty in compromising privileged account credentials, despite ...

Census Bureau Says Breach Didn’t Compromise Sensitive Data (Threatpost)
2015-07-27 13:22

Officials at the United States Census Bureau say that the attackers who compromised one of the bureau’s databases last week did not get access to any confidential information, but only data such...

Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users' devices (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 09:42

Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition that doing it from third party markets, but it still does not guarantee that you won't download a malicious app, despite Google using an automa...

Deadly Windows, Reader font bugs can lead to full system compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-06-24 14:28

"Even in 2015 - the era of high-quality mitigations and security mechanisms - one good bug still suffices for a complete system compromise," Mateusz Jurczyk, an infosec engineer with Google Project Ze...

Weak SSH keys opened many GitHub repositories to compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-06-03 10:37

Github repositories of many entities, projects, and even one government could have been compromised and used to deliver malicious code due to the owners' use of easily crackable SSH keys. "A little...