Security News

Popular Android AppLock app full of gaping security holes (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 13:01

AppLock, by DoMobile, is a very popular Android app for limiting access to certain content on the device (text messages, photos, videos, etc.). The user decides what content he or she want to keep pri...

Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Chrome 45 (Threatpost)
2015-09-02 12:48

Google promoted Chrome 45 to a stable release, patching 29 security vulnerabilities. It has also started pausing ads running Flash.

Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Chrome 45 (Threatpost)
2015-09-02 12:48

Google promoted Chrome 45 to a stable release, patching 29 security vulnerabilities. It has also started pausing ads running Flash.

Adware installer gives itself permission to access Mac users' keychain (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 11:55

Malwarebytes researcher Adam Thomas has made an interesting discovery: an adware installer created by Genieo, a well-known distributor of unwanted software, is taking advantage of an OS X feature to a...

Best practices for ensuring compliance in the age of cloud computing (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 11:44

When was the last time you heard someone utter the sentence, “I’m looking forward to the audit next week.” Most likely, never. Since its invention, the word “audit” has struck … well, if not terror, t...

0-days found in widely used Belkin router, fixes still unavailable (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 10:11

CERT/CC has issued a warning about the existence of several serious zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the popular Belkin N600 routers, and has offered advice on how users can protect themselves until...

95% of websites in 10 new TLDs are suspicious (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 08:23

Much has changed since the early days of the Internet when the Web had only six common top level domains (TLDs). Back then, what most consumers and businesses encountered were a small number of standa...

Snoopers’ Charter will cause extreme rise in business costs (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 07:18

The UK Government’s Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed ‘Snoopers’ Charter’ by critics, has already been met with contention from tech giants, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, who have stressed they will...

Verizon and Splunk deliver actionable threat intelligence (Help Net Security)
2015-09-02 07:09

Verizon Enterprise Solutions launched its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) app for Splunk software. The new free downloadable app helps take the guess work out of cyberthreats by harnessin...