Security News

Gary McGraw on BSIMM6 and Software Security (Threatpost)
2015-10-28 13:00

Mike Mimoso talks to Cigital's Gary McGraw about software security and analysis from the sixth version of the Building Security in Maturity Model report.

The security community's reaction as CISA passes US Senate (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 12:18

On Tuesday, the US Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a legislation that will allow companies to share information about the cyber attacks they suffered with governmen...

Europe's new "net neutrality" regulation is full of loopholes (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 09:35

The European Parliament voted yesterday for a Regulation on a Single Market for Electronic Communications. The new regulation brings a complete ban on roaming charges for using mobile phones abroa...

Social experiment: 200 USB flash drives left in public locations (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 08:15

Nearly one in five people who found a random USB stick in a public setting proceeded to use the drive in ways that posed cybersecurity risks to their personal devices and information and potentially, ...

One in 20 apps on private PCs are end-of-life (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 08:00

Secunia Research revealed the state of security for PC users in a total of 14 countries, including the US. One in 20 applications on private US PCs are end-of-life and 12 percent of Windows operating ...

The average organization experiences 9 insider threats each month (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 07:22

After analyzing actual cloud usage across over 23 million employees, Skyhigh Networks uncovered how user behaviours put companies at risk and how catching and managing this behaviour can be the prover...