Security News

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...

Situational Awareness and Crime Prevention (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-21 17:16

Ronald V. Clarke argues for more situational awareness in crime prevention. Turns out if you make crime harder, it goes down. And this has profound policy implications. Whatever the benefits for...