Security News

Users care about privacy when they know what info is collected about them (Help Net Security)
2015-03-31 12:25

A recent study conducted by Carnegie Mellon and Notre Dame University researchers is calling attention to several interesting things. For one, mobile apps collect too much data - especially locati...

Middle-Eastern energy firms targeted with reconnaissance Trojan (Help Net Security)
2015-03-31 11:02

An email spam campaign targeting companies in the petroleum, gas and helium industries has been spotted by Symantec researchers. Most of them are in the so-called Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qa...

Fake "Urgent billing update" email leads to Virgin Media, Paypal phishing page (Help Net Security)
2015-03-31 09:59

Customers of UK-based telecom and ISP Virgin Media are being targeted with a clever spam campaign that is after their account information, but also PayPal account login details and payment card inform...

Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on 'NSA-Proof' Smartphones
2015-03-31 08:50

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/03/pentagon-personnel-are-talking-nsa-proof-smartphones/108820/ By Aliya Sternstein Nextgov.com March 30, 2015

US Used Zero-Day Exploits Before It Had Policies for Them
2015-03-31 08:50

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/us-used-zero-day-exploits-policies/ By Kim Zetter Security Wired.com March 30, 2015