Security News

US Navy Soliciting Zero Days (Threatpost)
2015-06-15 13:09

A RFP, which has since been taken down, surfaced last week from the Naval Supply Systems Command seeking operational exploits and vulnerability intelligence for commercial software from leading IT vendors.

Emojis instead of PIN codes as an alternative for forgetful users (Help Net Security)
2015-06-15 13:08

For years now companies have been trying to come up with alternatives to passwords and passcodes that will be easier to remember (for users) and more difficult to guess or break (for criminals). UK...

Rethinking security: Securing activities instead of computers (Help Net Security)
2015-06-15 11:55

For many people involved in the infosecurity community, the notion of security is too often tied to the quality of code (resistance to specific classes of bug, for example) and effective patching - in...

Stronger data protection rules for Europe (Help Net Security)
2015-06-15 11:28

More than 90% of Europeans are concerned about mobile apps collecting their data without their consent. Today, an important step was taken to finalize EU data protection rules to help restore that con...