Security News

New Dyre variant outsmarts AV researchers' sandboxes (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 13:41

Since it was first spotted in June 2014, the Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan has become extremely popular with cyber crooks, and especially those that target businesses. The malware owes its success to ...

Week in review: Researchers hack surgery robot, 5-year-old malware turns Linux servers into spamming machines (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 05:03

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: The invasion of biometrics Depending on where you stand biometrics is a good thing or something that is do...

Researcher Finds Method to Bypass Google Password Alert (Threatpost)
2015-05-01 15:47

A security researcher has developed a method–actually two methods–for defeating the new Chrome Password Alert extension that Google released earlier this week. The Password Alert extension is...

Researcher neutralizes Google's Password Alert with a few lines of code (Help Net Security)
2015-05-01 09:36

Google's Password Alert extension for Chrome, which was released on Wednesday, has received its first critical security update less than 24 hours later, as infosec consultant Paul Moore came up with a...

Researchers mount cyber attacks against surgery robot (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 14:50

A group of researchers from University of Washington have tested the security of a teleoperated robotic surgery system created by their colleagues, and have found it severely lacking. "Teleoperated...

Successful POS attacks are the result of poor security, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 11:57

Most data breaches involving payment card information - and there have been too many in the last two years - can be traced back to a lack of implementation of security measures. Most breaches invol...