Security News

Threatpost News Wrap, April 22, 2016 (Threatpost)
2016-04-22 14:21

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including BlackBerry CEO's stance on lawful access principles, the FBI/Apple hearing, Viber adding end-to-end crypto, Teslacrypt, and more.

Identity protection: The critical intersection of biometrics and commerce (Help Net Security)
2016-04-22 14:00

In light of some high-profile data breaches in recent years, businesses are constantly seeking possible forms of authentication to replace passwords. While such breaches might suggest passwords...

Opera browser’s VPN is just a proxy, here’s how it works (Help Net Security)
2016-04-22 13:57

Yesterday, Opera announced they’ve added a free VPN client with unlimited data usage in the latest developer version of their browser. Sounds great doesn’t it? Michal Špaček, a web developer and...

TeslaCrypt: New versions and delivery methods, no decryption tool (Help Net Security)
2016-04-22 13:45

TeslaCrypt ransomware was first spotted and analyzed in early 2015, and soon enough researchers created a decryption tool for it. The malware has since reached versions 4.0 and 4.1 but,...