Security News

Canceled Talk Re-Ignites Controversy Over Legitimate Security Research (Threatpost)
2015-10-06 17:02

Citing vendor pressure, a researcher pulled a talk at HITB GSEC Singapore on the security of IP-enabled surveillance cameras.

Cisco disrupts major ransomware campaign that brought in $30M annually (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 15:21

Cisco researchers, with the help of Level 3 Threat Research Labs and OpenDNS, have managed to strike a considerable blow against ransomware peddlers that used the Angler exploit kit to deliver the mal...

Targeted Attack Exposes OWA Weakness (Threatpost)
2015-10-06 14:54

A targeted attack has been uncovered in which hackers were able to burrow onto the corporate network and steal thousands of username-password combinations via Outlook Web Access.

IP camera manufacturers force researcher to pull conference talk (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 14:03

A researcher has been forced to cancel his presentation on the vulnerabilities found on major surveillance cameras and how they can be exploited "due to legal threats from the manufacturers affected."...

Google patches Stagefright 2.0 on Nexus devices (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 12:58

Google has released its monthly security update for Nexus devices. Among the issues this update fixes are the two vulnerabilities in the stagefright and utils Android libraries, which have been du...

Attackers take over org's OWA server, harvest domain credentials with malicious DLL (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 11:38

Researchers from cyber attack detection and response outfit Cybereason have discovered a novel APT technique that was used by attackers to gain persistence in an (unnamed) organization' environment an...

T-Mobile customer data stolen from Experian already for sale (Help Net Security)
2015-10-06 10:01

The personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in the recently revealed Experian breach is possibly being already sold on the Dark Web. Irish fraud prevention company Trustev, which ...

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...