Security News

Week in review: Fileless malware, HTTPS interception in the wild, simple Gmail spoofing (Help Net Security)
2017-02-13 03:26

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Banks around the world hit with fileless malware Kaspersky Lab researchers have brought to light a series of...

The security impact of HTTPS interception in the wild (Help Net Security)
2017-02-10 13:15

HTTPS deployment is on an upward trajectory, and this growth is accompanied by the increasing HTTPS interception and SSL inspection by enterprise-grade firewalls, web filters, gateways, as well as...

HTTPS Hits 50 Percent Traffic Milestone (Threatpost)
2017-02-01 20:08

This week Let's Encrypt hit a huge milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS.

Firefox 51 starts flagging HTTP login pages as insecure (Help Net Security)
2017-01-25 19:45

Mozilla has released Firefox 51 on Tuesday, and this latest stable version of the popular browser comes with many security fixes and improvements. The list of security vulnerabilities fixed is...

Firefox 51 Begins Warning Users of Insecure HTTP Connections (Threatpost)
2017-01-25 19:30

Firefox 51 includes warnings to users landing on HTTP websites, and patches for nearly a half-dozen critical security vulnerabilities.