Security News

Researchers Discover Two New Strains of POS Malware (Threatpost)
2015-11-13 14:30

Two new and different strains of point of sale malware have come to light, including one that’s gone largely undetected for the past five years.

Researchers hack Vizio Smart TVs to access home network (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 14:10

Not only do Vizio's Smart TVs track users' viewing habits by default (and that information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to other internet-connected devices that...

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 10:43

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other criminal suspects on the dark we...

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...