Security News

Week in review: HackingTeam breach and consequences, and Android games unmasked as phishing tools (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 05:45

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that...

Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools (Help Net Security)
2015-07-09 15:04

ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter their Facebook credentials. T...

Senator Demands Answers on FBI’s Use of Zero Days, Phishing (Threatpost)
2015-07-02 15:06

The chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is asking some pointed questions of the FBI director about the bureau’s use of zero-day vulnerabilities, phishing attacks, spyware, and...

LifeLock Patches XSS That Could’ve Led to Phishing (Threatpost)
2015-07-01 15:48

Researchers identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in a page on the LifeLock website that could allow an attacker to create an authentic-looking login page for the service and harvest...

Researcher proves how easy it is to pull off homographic phishing attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-06-30 09:32

Security consultant Paul Moore has managed to register a domain that, at first glance, looks like that of UK-based Lloyds Bank, and get a valid TLS certificate for it from CloudFlare. He did so by...