Security News

GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack (Threatpost)
2015-03-27 15:54

A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing...

Threatpost News Wrap, March 27, 2015 (Threatpost)
2015-03-27 15:50

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the week, including the Android app-replacement vulnerability, the Windows privilege escalation bug and the Yahoo transparency report and the...

Critical flaw in WiFi routers puts hotels and millions of guests at risk (Help Net Security)
2015-03-27 15:35

A critical vulnerability in ANTlabs InnGate devices, a popular Internet gateway for visitor-based networks and commonly installed in hotels and convention centers, has been discovered by Cylance resea...

Schneider Electric Patches Easily Exploitable Bugs in HMI Products (Threatpost)
2015-03-27 15:01

There are a series of vulnerabilities related to credentials and authentication in two of Schneider Electric's HMI products, and an attacker who exploits them may be able to run arbitrary code.

Car hacking made cheaper and easier (Help Net Security)
2015-03-27 14:51

Fiddling with your car's innards will soon become easier and cheaper than ever before, as Eric Evenchick has created and made available hardware and software design files for CANtact, an open source C...

US tech giants urge Congress to curb mass digital surveillance (Help Net Security)
2015-03-27 12:05

As the date of the expiry of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act draws near, a wide range of tech companies, privacy advocates, and trade associations have asked the US president, US politicians and pr...