Security News

Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-30 11:27

Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative Archival Samples":...

Researcher proves how easy it is to pull off homographic phishing attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 09:32

Security consultant Paul Moore has managed to register a domain that, at first glance, looks like that of UK-based Lloyds Bank, and get a valid TLS certificate for it from CloudFlare. He did so by...

Worldwide IT spending to decline 5.5 percent in 2015 (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 08:16

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.5 trillion in 2015, a 5.5 percent decline from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. Analysts attribute the decline to the rising U.S. do...

Why vulnerability disclosure shouldn’t be a marketing tool (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 07:28

There have been many arguments within the security community on how researchers should disclose the existence of a security vulnerability. Some argue that full disclosure is the best approach as it ma...

NIST revises security publication on random number generation (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 07:02

In response to public concerns about cryptographic security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally revised its recommended methods for generating random numbers, a cru...

Security concerns continue to dog the cloud industry (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 06:55

Executives at major North American companies believe conventional network security solutions aren’t enough to protect their cloud computing environments, especially when it comes to visibility into im...