Security News

Trump Comments Straddle Line of Soliciting Computer Crime (Threatpost)
2016-07-27 20:03

Donald Trump may have left himself an out today when he urged Russian hackers to find 30,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton from her private server.

Visiting a Website against the Owner's Wishes Is Now a Federal Crime (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-13 19:10

While we're on the subject of terrible 9th Circuit Court rulings: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has handed down a very important decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.......

Password Sharing Is Now a Crime (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-13 16:07

In a truly terrible ruling, the US 9th Circuit Court ruled that using someone else's password with their permission but without the permission of the site owner is a federal crime. The argument...

UK: Cybercrime now bigger threat than traditional crime (Help Net Security)
2016-07-11 13:00

The accelerating pace of technology and criminal cyber capability currently outpaces the UK’s collective response to cybercrime, calling for stronger collaborative working between government, law...

World-Check crime and terror database exposed online (Help Net Security)
2016-06-29 19:54

Security researcher Chris Vickery, who has become well-known for unearthing databases that should not be accessible via the Internet but are, has found another one that contains old data from...