Security News

Ad Fraud Malware Updating Flash on Infected PCs (Threatpost)
2015-07-06 17:59

Ad fraud malware is one of the more profitable specialties in the cybercrime world, and the attackers who use it often have to adapt their tactics in order to keep the money rolling in. One of the...

Command Injection Vulnerabilities Plague IP Enabled AirLive Cameras (Threatpost)
2015-07-06 16:14

Core Security disclosed information on command-injection vulnerabilities found in a number of AirLive IP-enabled cameras after repeated attempts to disclose to the manufacturer were ignored.

Old MS Office feature can be exploited to deliver, execute malware (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 15:18

A Microsoft Office functionality that has been in use since the early 1990s can be exploited to deliver malicious, executable files to users without triggering widely used security software, claims se...

Hackers Release Hacking Team Internal Documents After Breach (Threatpost)
2015-07-06 14:09

Attackers have compromised the network of Italian intrusion software vendor Hacking Team and released a large cache of the company's private documents, including customer invoices that show sales...

Let's Encrypt CA releases transparency report before its first certificate (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 12:40

The non-profit CA launched by the EFF, Mozilla and several other businesses and organizations is determined to gain and retain users' trust. After hiring outside experts to conduct a security revi...

Reactions to the Hacking Team breach (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 11:38

Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world, has been hacked. ...

Man gets 50 months in prison hacking U.S.-based financial institutions (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 10:24

Qendrim Dobruna, a member of an international cybercrime syndicate, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $14 million for his role in hacking into the computer syst...

Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 09:57

Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world, has been hacked. ...

The best way to prevent data breaches? It's not what you think (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 07:30

Data security breaches seem to be popping up almost daily. From the 2015 IRS breach, to the hacking of federal government employees’ data by China, it’s clear much of our most important data are at ri...

Week in review: Popular VPNs leaking data, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine (Help Net Security)
2015-07-06 07:23

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: 5 ways to stop the Internet of Things from becoming the Internet of Thieves This is the Internet universalized, embe...