Security News

It's not just about Big Data, it's what you do with it (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 08:30

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry is being driven by digital business, and an environment...

Applying machine learning techniques on contextual data for threat detection (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 08:00

The momentum behind cloud computing couldn’t be stronger as companies, governments and other organizations move to the cloud to lower costs and improve agility. However, you need look no further than ...

Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 07:30

Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi...

Cybersecurity is being taken seriously around the globe (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 07:00

There has been a dramatic increase in the attention that boards and executives are paying to cybersecurity risk management, according to a new global study developed by the Georgia Tech Information Se...

Google Pushes Stagefright 2.0 Patches to Nexus Devices (Threatpost)
2015-10-05 20:34

Google's latest monthly over-the-air update for its Nexus Android devices include patches for the most recent vulnerabilities in Stagefright.

YiSpecter iOS Malware Abuses Apple Enterprise Certs to Push Adware (Threatpost)
2015-10-05 16:49

New iOS malware called YiSpecter abuses Apple-issued enterprise developer certificates and private APIs to push adware onto devices in China and Taiwan.

Scottrade Breach Affects 4.6 Million Customers (Threatpost)
2015-10-05 16:43

Scottrade has begun warning customers that as a result of a breach, their names and street addresses - and potentially Social Security numbers - may have been stolen from its system.

Nuclear facilities are wide open to cyber attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-10-05 14:52

You would think that, given the potential disastrous consequences of a successful hack, the computer systems and networks of nuclear facilities would be better secured agains cyber intrusions. Unfortu...

Millions affected by Scottrade brokerage breach that dates back two years (Help Net Security)
2015-10-05 12:53

Missouri-based retail brokerage firm Scottrade has suffered a breach nearly two years ago, but they are only notifying their customers about it now, because they only found out about it now. "Feder...

Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance (Schneier on Security)
2015-10-05 11:11

ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they'll soon be obsolete. You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically. A security camera will...