Security News

Threatpost News Wrap, September 4, 2015 (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 13:00

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week.

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 12:30

HP, a longtime sponsor of the Pwn2Own hacking contests, has decided it will not participate in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own event in Japan because of concerns over the country’s implementation of the...

Fake recruiters on LinkedIn are targeting infosec pros (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 09:46

"There's a group of fake recruiters on LinkedIn mapping infosec people's networks. Not sure what their goal is yet, just a heads-up to others," Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat intelligence analyst working...

Cisco squashes DoS bug in its unified infrastructure software (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 08:52

Cisco has released a patch for a serious remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director offerings. "A vulnerability in Jav...

Rudra: Framework for automated inspection of network capture files (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 07:30

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2015, Ankur Tyagi, Malware Research Engineer at Qualys, talks about Rudra, a framework for automated inspection of network capture files. It extends upon anot...

Operational security and cybersecurity come together in Anaheim (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 07:00

The crossroads of cybersecurity and operational security is in Anaheim, California. That's where the (ISC)2 Security Congress is co-located with ASIS 2015, making this one of the biggest security conf...