Security News

Google scraps Pwnium, invites researchers to submit Chrome bugs year-round (Help Net Security)
2015-02-26 07:28

Google is scrapping its annual Pwnium hacking competition which has been held for four years in a row at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, but that doesn't mean that security researchers...

Researchers create automated signature compiler for exploit detection (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 08:29

A trio of researchers from Microsoft and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have created Kizzle, a compiler for generating signatures for detecting exploit kits delivering JavaScript to browsers. The...

Over 250,000 home routers sport same SSH keys, warns researcher (Help Net Security)
2015-02-20 15:50

With a simple search, John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, has discovered with it more than 250,000 routers that share the same SSH key, meaning they also share the same private key. An attacker coul...