Security News

Europol to get new powers to disrupt terrorists’ online presence (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 14:58

The EU police agency Europol is expected to gain new powers that will help it fight terrorism and cybercrime, thanks to new governance rules endorsed by Civil Liberties Committee MEPs on Thursday....

Vulnerabilities in Samsung's SmartThings (Schneier on Security)
2016-05-02 14:01

Interesting research: Earlence Fernandes, Jaeyeon Jung, and Atul Prakash, "Security Analysis of Emerging Smart Home Applications": Abstract: Recently, several competing smart home programming...

Security startup confessions: Choosing a tech partner (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 14:00

My name is Kai Roer and I am a co-founder of a European security startup, and these are my confessions. I hope you will learn from my struggles, and appreciate the choices startups make when...

Living in a password free world in the modern enterprise (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 13:37

The era of password security in the modern enterprise is over. Passwords are dead. Let’s be honest. Passwords in the enterprise were never really that secure in the first place. But in the absence...

US companies need to gear up for new EU data privacy regulations (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 12:45

Thousands of American companies that do business in Europe directly or online with European customers will need to start reckoning with new EU data privacy regulations that are due to go into full...