Security News

FBI Reaffirms Stance Not to Pay Ransomware Attackers (Threatpost)
2016-05-02 21:14

An FBI warning urges organizations to be vigilant about ransomware, and reaffirmed its position that companies should not pay ransoms to recover their files.

Fake Security Conferences (Schneier on Security)
2016-05-02 20:45

Turns out there are two different conferences with the title International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2016), one real and one fake. Richard Clayton has the story....

US FISC approved all surveillance requests in 2015 (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 19:51

The US Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) has approved every electronic surveillance request for foreign intelligence purposes it has received in 2015. As it turns out, such an...