Security News

Hundreds of Russians Protest Tighter Internet Controls (Security Week)
2017-08-27 18:48

About 1,000 Russians braved pouring rain in Moscow on Saturday to demonstrate against the government's moves to tighten controls on internet use, with police arresting about a dozen protesters. read more

Review: Securing the Internet of Things (Help Net Security)
2017-08-25 16:42

About the authors Shancang Li is a senior lecturer in the cyber security research unit, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK....

Medical devices and the Internet of Things: Defending against cyber threats (Help Net Security)
2017-08-16 12:00

More than one-third (35.6 percent) of surveyed professionals in the Internet of Things-connected medical device ecosystem say their organizations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the...

Penetrating a Casino's Network through an Internet-Connected Fish Tank (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-04 11:22

Attackers used a vulnerability in an Internet-connected fish tank to successfully penetrate a casino's network. BoingBoing post....

Threat Modeling the Internet of Things: Part 3 - A Real World Example (Security Week)
2017-08-01 11:18

One of the most bizarre beginnings in movie history involved a young Paul Newman decapitating a streetful of Duncan Model 50 parking meters in the existential-hero classic, “Cool Hand Luke.” Those...

An internet-connected fish tank let hackers into a casino’s network (Help Net Security)
2017-07-27 15:51

A high-tech, internet-connected fish tank in a North American casino has been used to exfiltrate data from the company’s network. Smart drawing pads used in an architectural firm were part of a...

Internet Bug Bounty Project Receives $300,000 Donation (Security Week)
2017-07-24 09:48

The Internet Bug Bounty (IBB), a project whose goal is to make the Web safer by rewarding white hat hackers who find vulnerabilities in core Internet infrastructure and open source software,...

Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk (The Hackers News)
2017-07-18 11:04

Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that...

How CIA Agents Covertly Steal Data From Hacked Smartphones (Without Internet)
2017-07-13 08:40

WikiLeaks has today published the 16th batch of its ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time instead of revealing new malware or hacking tool, the whistleblower organisation has unveiled how CIA operatives...

New Ransomware Threatens to Send Your Internet History & Private Pics to All Your Friends (The Hackers News)
2017-07-13 04:27

After WannaCry and Petya ransomware outbreaks, a scary (but rather creative) new strain of ransomware is spreading via bogus apps on the Google Play Store, this time targeting Android mobile...