Security News

CyberCalifornia initiative to facilitate research and innovation (Help Net Security)
2016-02-29 11:00

More than ever, California stands at the forefront of new technologies based on the Internet of Things (IoT). We are also increasingly vulnerable, a fact underscored by breaches of corporations...

Judge Finds DoD Funded Carnegie Mellon University Tor Research (February 24 and 25, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-02-26 21:55

Judge Confirms DoD Funded Research to Decloak Tor Users (Threatpost)
2016-02-25 15:51

The Tor Project is dismayed at a District Court judge's confirmation that the government paid Carnegie Mellon University to research how to unmask users on the Tor network.

University's Tor Hacking Research Funded by DoD (SecurityWeek)
2016-02-25 15:40

Research on Balancing Privacy with Surveillance (Schneier on Security)
2016-02-24 12:05

Interesting research: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, Zhiewi Steven Wu, and Grigory Yaroslavtsev, "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search," PNAS, Jan 2016: Abstract: Motivated...

Research shows antivirus products vulnerable to attack (ZDNet)
2016-02-19 15:09

Issue 693 - google-security-research - TrendMicro node.js HTTP server listening on localhost can execute commands - Google Security Research (Reddit)
2016-01-11 19:25

Google Puts Up $1 Million for Security Research Grants (SecurityWeek)
2015-12-21 15:08

Google Drive allots $1 million to fund security research grants (ZDNet)
2015-12-17 19:07

Vision for a new generation of experimental cybersecurity research (Help Net Security)
2015-12-17 08:00

How do cybersecurity experts discover how to properly defend a system or build a network that's secure? As in other domains of science, this process involves hypothesis, experimentation, and analys...