Security News

Security update kills several critical bugs in Android Marshmallow (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 11:01

Google's November Android security update carries fixes for seven vulnerabilities, including two remote code execution flaws that are rated "critical" (CVE-2015-6608, CVE-2015-6609), and an elevation ...

Chimera crypto-ransomware is hitting German companies (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:59

A new piece of crypto-ransomware is targeting German companies: it's called Chimera, and the criminals behind the scheme are threatening to release sensitive corporate data on the Internet if the targ...

Stanford researchers identify potential security hole in genomic data-sharing network (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:15

Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research. Yet genomic data contains identifiable information and, in the wrong hands, poses a risk to individual ...

Cyber operational readiness and a complex threat landscape (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:10

Mike Walls is the Managing Director, Security Operations and Analysis at EdgeWave. In this interview he discusses keeping pace with an increasingly complex threat landscape, cyber operational readines...

The value in vulnerability management platforms (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:00

A study conducted by Forrester Consulting assessed IT decision makers' satisfaction with their current vulnerability management platforms and the challenges companies face in securing their cloud envi...

The growth of mobile malware and online banking attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 06:49

Kaspersky Lab explored the increase in mobile threats, malware attempts to steal from consumer online bank accounts and targeted cyberattacks in the evolving threat landscape. Q3 in figures:323,374...

Vulnerability Identified in Genomic Data Sharing Network (Threatpost)
2015-11-02 21:08

A vulnerability in a network that processes genomic data could pave the way to some global genomic databases being hacked.

Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem (Threatpost)
2015-11-02 20:29

Researchers have developed a bypass for Microsoft's EMET exploit mitigations by targeting a design limitation of the WoW64 subsystem that provides backwards compatibility for 32-bit applications...

Monthly Android Security Update Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2015-11-02 20:10

Google released its monthly over-the-air Android security update to Nexus devices, patching another handful of vulnerabilities related to Stagefright.

Researchers can identify people through walls by using wireless signals (Help Net Security)
2015-11-02 15:21

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a device that allows them to "see" what a person is doing and track his or her movement even if that person i...