Security News

Researchers prove HTML5 can be used to hide malware (Help Net Security)
2015-07-16 10:59

A group of Italian researchers have come up with new obfuscation techniques that can be used to dupe malware detection systems and allow malicious actors to execute successful drive-by download attack...

Researchers point out the holes in NoScript's default whitelist (Help Net Security)
2015-07-01 13:03

Security researchers Linus Särud and Matthew Bryant hav recently discovered some pretty big holes in NoScript, a popular Firefox plugin that prevents executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, F...

Researchers eliminate coding errors by using good code from "donor" apps (Help Net Security)
2015-07-01 07:25

The main appeal of open source software is in the fact that its source code can be reviewed by anyone and, theoretically, stealthy backdoors and unintentional errors should be spotted and removed quic...

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...

Researcher Says LG App Update Mechanism Doesn’t Verify SSL Cert (Threatpost)
2015-06-29 19:01

Many smartphones manufactured by LG contain a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to replace an APK file with a malicious file of his choice. The problem is the result of several conditions...