Security News

Convicted Tax Fraudster & Fugitive Caught (Krebs on Security)
2015-03-19 04:02

Lance Ealy, an Ohio man who fled home confinement last year just prior to his conviction on charges of filing phony tax refund requests on more than 150 Americans, was apprehended in a pre-dawn...

Double FREAK! A cryptographic bug that was found because of the FREAK bug (Naked Security)
2015-03-18 22:24

Researchers checking up on the state of FREAK patching turned up another bug as a result. Sometimes, finding programming mistakes requires serendipitous coincidences!

OpenSSL Patch to Plug Severe Security Holes (Krebs on Security)
2015-03-18 14:35

The world is about to get another reminder about just how much of the Internet runs on technology maintained by a handful of coders working on a shoestring budget. OpenSSL -- the software used by...