Security News

US DOJ admits that Stingrays can be used to intercept call and SMS content (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 10:23

After a battling the US Department of Justice in a court for two and a half years, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has emerged victorious and has been given access to documen...

10 tips to avoid viruses on Halloween (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 09:49

As we get closer to Halloween, hackers take advantage of the most popular Hollywood titles to launch so-called BlackHat SEO attacks, i.e. false Google and other search engine results with keywords rel...

Second teenager arrested in connection with TalkTalk hack (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 09:03

Police have arrested a second teenage boy in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. On Thursday, 29 October, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Un...

Real-world roadblocks to implementing CISA (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 09:00

The recent approval of CISA (the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) by the US Congress and Senate is paving the way for broader security collaboration. There is a rapidly growing belief that se...

Android infostealer masquerading as MS Word document (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 08:56

A clever Android information-stealing piece of malware is lurking on third-party app markets popular with Chinese users. "The malware portrays itself as a data file with an icon similar to that use...