Security News

Plaintext Credentials Threaten RLE Wind Turbine HMI (Threatpost)
2015-06-17 14:01

A week after disclosing a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in small wind turbines manufactured by a company called XZERES, a security researcher has discovered a serious bug in the...

Employee credentials of half of European top 500 firms exposed online (Help Net Security)
2015-06-02 12:15

Cyber attacks and data breaches very often start with phishing or spear-phishing. Access to good credentials is key - whether it's for straight emailing or direct access to target email systems, etc. ...

Default Credentials Lead to Massive DDoS-For-Hire Botnet (Threatpost)
2015-05-12 20:44

Tens of thousands of home and office-based routers have been hijacked over the last several months to stage a distributed denial of service attack campaign.

WordPress Sites Backdoored, Leaking Credentials (Threatpost)
2015-05-08 15:37

Zscaler has discovered a number of WordPress sites that have been backdoored and sending credentials to a hacker-controlled website.