Security News

Microsoft's anti-surveillance website was hacked (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 12:04

Digital Constitution - a dedicated website Microsoft set up to keep users informed of its efforts to counter US government's attempts to access customer emails the company stores in its data center lo...

Why LinkedIn chose to keep its bug bounty program private (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 11:10

Bug bounty programs have become de rigueur for tech and Internet companies that want to improve the security of their products by (partly) outsourcing bug discovery. But while most companies opt for p...

Reddit announces switch to HTTPS-only (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 09:47

With a short note posted on the site’s developers subreddit, reddit - the so-called "front page of the internet" - has announced that starting with June 29, the site will be served only over HTTPS. ...

Insider threat: A crack in the organization wall (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 08:08

Vormetric announced the European findings of a survey conducted by Harris Poll in fall 2014 among 818 enterprise IT decision makers (ITDMs) in various countries, including 204 in the UK and Germany. ...

IoT developers concerned about privacy and data protection (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 07:13

An impressive 65 percent of Internet of Things (IoT) apps in production today are generating real revenue. The study results, undertaken by Progress and Harbor Research, also reveal developers expect ...

Why break in, if you can simply login? (Help Net Security)
2015-06-18 05:29

I was asked the other day why so many security breaches are hitting the headlines and are seemingly getting larger and more frequent. The game of cyber security has changed significantly over the year...