Security News

Hacking Team Plans to Continue Operations (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 13:35

UPDATE–It has been absolutely brutal week for Hacking Team. All of the company’s documents, internal communications, emails with customers, and invoices have been published, including its dealings...

Teenage Lizard Squad hacker found guilty of 50,700 charges (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 13:32

A 17-year-old member of the infamous Lizard Squad has been found guilty of 50,700 charges by a Finnish court, but won't serve his sentence in a prison. Among other things, Julius Kivimaki (also kno...

Security experts explain to US, UK governments why mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 12:06

Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee about law enforcement's need...

Threat intelligence: Sources, sharing, utilization and the government (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 10:06

More than three quarters of IT security professionals (81%) believe the government should be sharing more threat intelligence information with the private sector, according to AlienVault research. ...

Flash 0-day exploit found in Hacking Team's leaked data exploited by criminals (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 07:17

Human rights and privacy activists and journalists are actively reviewing the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach. Reporters of The Intercept have concentrated on going through the leaked emails...

Why location-based social media data is critical for security (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 07:00

Sports games at stadiums, hurricanes along the coast, protests on city streets, guest complaints at hotels, customer praise at restaurants, bullying at schools… Things happen at specific places. These...