Security News

Ubuntu 17.10 brings enhanced security and productivity for developers
2017-10-20 13:00

Canonical released Ubuntu 17.10 featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland, and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie. On the cloud, 17.10 brings Kubernetes 1.8 for hyper-elastic container...

Tor Developer Busts Myths, Announces New Features (Threatpost)
2017-08-04 16:20

Tor cofounder Roger Dingledine sets the record straight at DEF CON on popular myths, and at the same time teases upcoming features.

Hackers Can Use Git Repos for Stealthy Attack on Developers (Security Week)
2017-08-04 08:48

Malicious actors can abuse GitHub and other services that host Git repositories for stealthy attacks aimed at software developers, experts showed recently at the Black Hat security conference in...

Hackers Hijacked Chrome Extension for Web Developers With Over 1 Million Users (The Hackers News)
2017-08-03 02:27

From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informing their users to inject bulk advertisements into every...

Phishers steal Chrome extension from developer (Help Net Security)
2017-07-31 19:45

An attacker has compromised the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software, and has equipped their Copyfish Chrome extension with ad/spam injection capabilities....

Avast Acquires CCleaner Developer Piriform (Security Week)
2017-07-20 14:38

Antivirus firm Avast announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Piriform, a London, UK-based company that develops the popular cleaning and optimization tool CCleaner. read more

Russian Citadel Malware Developer Gets 5-Year Sentence (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-20 13:48

Notorious Banking Trojan Tied to 11 Million Infections, $500 Million in LossesRussian citizen Mark Vartanyan, aka "Kolypto," has been sentenced to serve five years in U.S. prison after he pleaded...

No evidence NotPetya developers obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-30 14:13

Evidence ties people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.

Websites built by freelance developers are plagued with security failures (Help Net Security)
2017-06-08 12:57

Websites developed by “budget” developers, without portfolios or references, tend to be plagued with critical security failures, research has shown. For this project, the Tripwire Vulnerability...

GnuPG developers start new fundraising effort (Help Net Security)
2017-06-07 22:37

Werner Koch and his team of GnuPG developers are asking for funding for the continued development of the popular free email and data encryption software. What is GnuPG, and why you should care...