Security News
Why you shouldn't trust a website simply because it's secured using HTTPS and backed by the green padlock symbol.
Malicious actors are abusing users’ trust in the HTTPS protocol to launch phishing campaigns, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns in a recent alert. read more
DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.
Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup Apache HTTP Server has been given a patch to address a potentially serious elevation of privilege vulnerability.…
Cybercriminals are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and serve malicious payloads, Zscaler security researchers have discovered. read more
Security services provider Cloudflare on Monday announced the release of two new tools related to HTTPS interception detection. read more
It's patching time again for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Oops! Microsoft has published an advisory on a bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) product that allows a malicious HTTP/2...
The developers of the popular open source video player VLC, which recently surpassed 3 billion downloads, have responded to criticism over the use of HTTP for software updates. read more
Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to...
Breathe easier knowing you've tested your software properly A Google cyrptoboffin is close to releasing a tool that will hopefully make all of us more secure online.…