Security News

Vulnerabilities Identified in NY Banking Vendors (Threatpost)
2015-04-13 18:56

To bolster security, banks in New York are planning to enact new regulations for any third party vendors they do business with.

New SMB Flaw Affects All Versions of Windows (Threatpost)
2015-04-13 14:49

There is a serious vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that can allow an attacker who has control of some portion of a victim’s network traffic to steal users’ credentials for...

Attackers can easily crack Belkin routers' WPS PINs (Help Net Security)
2015-04-13 14:44

A considerable number of routers manufactured by US-based Belkin use a flawed method for creating PINs for Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), making them easily discoverable by attackers, a researcher has f...

China's Great Cannon (Schneier on Security)
2015-04-13 14:12

Citizen Lab has issued a report on China's "Great Cannon" attack tool, used in the recent DDoS attack against GitHub. We show that, while the attack infrastructure is co-located with the Great...

Details Disclosed on Darwin Nuke Bug in OS X, iOS (Threatpost)
2015-04-13 14:03

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab disclosed some details on the so-called Darwin Nuke vulnerability in Apple OS X and iOS.

New security requirements for payment card vendors (Help Net Security)
2015-04-13 12:46

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published version 1.1. of its PCI Card Production Security Requirements. The updated standard helps payment card vendors secure the components and sens...