Security News

Google to Pause Flash Ads in Chrome Starting Next Week (Threatpost)
2015-08-28 13:04

Google on Tuesday will begin pausing Flash ads by default in Chrome, a move that is designed mainly to help improve browser speed, but that will also be a security upgrade for users. The company...

The WhatsApp of Wall Street (Help Net Security)
2015-08-28 08:05

On August 21, a pump and dump penny stock scam targeting US users, and spread using WhatsApp, drove the share price of Avra Inc, a digital currency company, by 640% from its opening price of $0.17 to ...

Proactive real-time security intelligence: Moving beyond conventional SIEM (Help Net Security)
2015-08-28 08:04

Surprisingly, discussions about security intelligence still focus primarily around conventional reactive Security Incident and Event Management systems (SIEM). However, in today’s highly active and co...

Network security firewalls approach $1 billion in 2Q15 (Help Net Security)
2015-08-28 08:01

The enterprise-class network security firewall market sales climbed more than 10 percent compared to the year-ago-period and approached a $1 billion quarterly run-rate during second quarter 2015, acco...

JetAudio and JetVideo media player vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution (Help Net Security)
2015-08-28 07:47

An arbitrary code execution in the JetAudio Basic (v8.1.3) and JetVideo media players for Windows allows potential attackers to craft a malicious .asf file that could compromise a user’s PC, warns Bit...