Security News

Feds Change Policy to Require Warrant for Use of Stingrays (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 13:50

The Department of Justice has established a new policy that requires federal law enforcement agents–and state and local agencies working with the department–to obtain search warrants in order to...

Threatpost News Wrap, September 4, 2015 (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 13:00

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the potential US sanctions against China over cyberespionage, the browser vendors dumping RC4, the trouble at Mobile Pwn2Own and more security news of the week.

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 12:30

HP, a longtime sponsor of the Pwn2Own hacking contests, has decided it will not participate in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own event in Japan because of concerns over the country’s implementation of the...

Fake recruiters on LinkedIn are targeting infosec pros (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 09:46

"There's a group of fake recruiters on LinkedIn mapping infosec people's networks. Not sure what their goal is yet, just a heads-up to others," Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat intelligence analyst working...

Cisco squashes DoS bug in its unified infrastructure software (Help Net Security)
2015-09-04 08:52

Cisco has released a patch for a serious remotely exploitable vulnerability affecting its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director offerings. "A vulnerability in Jav...