Security News

Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 12:26

A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android's backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to "respawn" malicious apps on phones, and make them gain top-level access and potentially dan...

3 ways to stop insider threats in your organization (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 08:00

No one wants their organization to be the next poster child for a major informational breach. No one wants their company to make headlines for having their data compromised or stolen. No one wants the...

First Java zero-day in two years exploited by Pawn Storm hackers (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 07:36

Another zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in attacks spotted in the wild: this time, the targeted software is Java. The flaw was spotted by Trend Micro researchers, who are closely monitori...

Mobile SSL failures: More common than they should be (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 07:27

Securing your mobile application traffic is apparently more difficult than it should be, as researchers Anthony Trummer and Tushar Dalvi discovered when looking into SSL/TLS usage on the Android opera...

Identifying the five principal methods of network attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 07:09

Companies are underestimating the risk of failing to provide security training to non-technical staff. A new Intel Security study, which surveyed IT decision makers in European-based companies, fo...

Two more Flash 0-day exploits found in Hacking Team leak, one already exploited in the wild (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 06:30

Exploits for two more Adobe Flash 0-days have been found in the leaked Hacking Team data. The existence of the vulnerabilities has been acknowledged by Adobe with a security advisory. They affect a...

Week in review: HackingTeam breach and consequences, and Android games unmasked as phishing tools (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 05:45

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that...