Security News

Carbanak APT still targeting high-value financial institutions and casinos (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 14:20

The Anunak / Carbanak hacking group continues to target banks, but has also now hitting Forex-trading companies, casinos, and other institutions from which it can steal large amounts of money or (mis)...

Government Releases Policy on Vulnerability Discovery and Disclosure (Threatpost)
2015-09-08 13:38

After more than a year if legal wrangling, the federal government has agreed to hand over its policy on vulnerability use and disclosure. The government had said that the policy was classified and...

Zero-day bugs in Kaspersky and FireEye products found, exploits disclosed (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 12:35

A slew of vulnerabilities - some already patched and some still not - have been revealed to affect several security offerings by some of the most trusted names in the security market. Google securi...

Ashley Madison developers not big on security (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 11:00

Just a ten minutes long browsing session of the leaked Ashley Madison source code revealed to infosec consultant Gabor Szathmari a number of security mistakes that have likely helped the attackers mov...

Vulnerabilities in WhatsApp Web affect 200 million users globally (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 10:23

Significant vulnerabilities can exploit WhatsApp Web, the web-based extension of the popular WhatsApp application for phones. The exploit can allow attackers to trick victims into executing malware...

Android ransomware masquerades as Adult Player app, takes photo of victim (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 09:37

A new mobile ransomware variant uses a clever new technique to push affected users to pay the asked-for ransom: it takes a photo of the user with the phone's front-facing camera, and inserts that phot...

How talking to recognition technologies will change us (Help Net Security)
2015-09-08 06:44

Ernest Hemmingway once said, “I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” Perhaps, like most of the things we do, technology will absolve us of that requirement to...