Security News

Nigerian scammers are stealing millions from businesses (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 15:11

When someone mentions advanced fee or romance scams most people immediately associate them with Nigerian scammers. But there is another type of scam that these fraudsters actively engage in: the so-ca...

Samsung disables Windows Update, undermines the security of your devices (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 12:05

Another example of how vendors sometimes choose to improve usability to the detriment of user security has been recently discovered by security researcher and Microsoft MVP Patrick Barker. Spurred ...

Baseball Hacking: Cardinals vs. Astros (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-25 11:14

I think this is the first case of one professional sports team hacking another. No idea if it was an official operation, or a couple of employees doing it on their own initiative....

The downfall of a major cybercrime ring exploiting banking Trojans (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 09:30

A joint investigation team (JIT) consisting of investigators and judicial authorities from six different European countries, supported by Europol and Eurojust, has taken down a major cybercriminal gro...

Hackers are spending a huge amount of resources targeting financial services (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 07:55

Websense revealed a high degree of specialization among criminals attacking financial services, a huge investment in the lure attack phase and the specific and anomalous attacks pointed at global targ...

Businesses know about POS security risks, but are they investing wisely? (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 07:54

The majority of organizations have increased their POS security budgets during the last two years, but many of them are still using and investing in outdated technologies, such as antivirus. A Bi...

Why a Dyre infection leads to more than just stolen banking credentials (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 07:07

The Dyre/Dyreza information-stealer has without a doubt filled the vacuum generated by the 2014 and 2015 law enforcement takedowns of botnet infrastructure of several prominent financial Trojan groups...

Three simple ways to prevent a data breach (Help Net Security)
2015-06-25 07:02

With methods of cybercrime rapidly evolving, the number of headline-making data breaches continues to grow. Unfortunately, it has become clear that even advanced security measures can be easily bypass...

Deadly Windows, Reader font bugs can lead to full system compromise (Help Net Security)
2015-06-24 14:28

"Even in 2015 - the era of high-quality mitigations and security mechanisms - one good bug still suffices for a complete system compromise," Mateusz Jurczyk, an infosec engineer with Google Project Ze...

WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents (Help Net Security)
2015-06-24 12:56

WikiLeaks has published "Espionnage Élysée", a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the communications of three French presidents...