Security News

vBulletin, Foxit forums hacked, attacker exploited a zero-day flaw? (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 10:11

On Monday, a vBulletin support manager has announced on the company's forums that they are forcing a password reset for all of its customers. "Very recently, our security team discovered a sophisti...

Another teenager arrested in connection to TalkTalk hack (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:15

A 16-year-old boy from Norwich has become the fourth person arrested in connection with the investigation into the TalkTalk data breach. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit and...

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...

Hard-hitting insights into global attacks targeting organizations (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 07:30

After collecting and analyzing data, based on a comprehensive review of incident response investigations conducted over the past three years on behalf of organizations across various industries, Crowd...

Open source tool checks for vulnerabilities on Android devices (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 07:06

OEMs like Samsung and HTC run heavily customized versions of Android. Unfortunately, the OEM patch deployment infrastructure is disorganized and too often end users are left exposed for large periods ...