Security News

Exploit kits: The rise in user-friendly malware (Help Net Security)
2016-04-21 14:00

In past years, we’re seen a massive increase in the use of exploit kits. No website is too great to withstand the many powerful kits, with the Mail Online famously falling victim to a malvertising...

How to automate a custom password dictionary for your pen test (Help Net Security)
2016-04-21 13:30

When doing penetration testing, security professionals regularly have to deal with words that are specific to the task at hand, and many are not found in common wordlists. Another problem comes...

Misunderstanding Indicators of Compromise (Threatpost)
2016-04-21 13:00

In this Threatpost op-ed, Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter explain the dangers of conflating measurable events, or observables, with indicators of compromise, which require context and other...

A global data analysis of hostile activity (Help Net Security)
2016-04-21 13:00

Solutionary’s latest Global Threat Intelligence Report contains information from 24 security operations centers, seven R&D centers, 3.5 trillion logs, 6.2 billion attacks and nearly 8,000 security...