Security News

Personal Data Sharing by Mobile Apps (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-13 12:08

Interesting research: "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps," by Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and...

Email is more secure today than it was two years ago (Help Net Security)
2015-11-13 11:42

Google has partnered with University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, and they have been trying to discover, for the last couple of years, how email security has evolved. The researchers...

Open source Twittor tool can control botnets via Direct Messages (Help Net Security)
2015-11-13 08:56

A security researcher has created a tool that allows botnet masters to control their botnet by simply sending out commands via Twitter accounts. "I mostly wanted to create a PoC after Twitter decid...