Security News

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 10:43

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other criminal suspects on the dark we...

Why governments need to take the lead in cybersecurity (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 09:00

Time and time again we hear people lament about the impact cybercrime has on our businesses, our individual lives, the economy, and on society. Report after report show the impact cybercrime is having...

Endpoint security lags in spite of vulnerabilities (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 08:05

Endpoint security solutions today continue to lag, failing to provide protections or detections adequate to protect against today’s security threats, according to Promisec. Survey results point to inc...

Buhtrap gang distributes malware through Ammyy’s remote desktop software (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 07:55

ESET has uncovered several examples of malware being distributed via a strategic web compromise. Recently, visitors to ammyy.com were offered a bundle containing not only the company’s legitimate Remo...