Security News

Linux kernel gets patch for 11-year-old local-root-hole security bug (The Register)
2017-02-23 03:24

Beeps, roots and leaves: Car-controlling Android apps create theft risk (The Register)
2017-02-20 14:08

Research into the Root Causes of Terrorism (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-15 12:31

Interesting article in Science discussing field research on how people are radicalized to become terrorists. The potential for research that can overcome existing constraints can be seen in recent...

Google launches its own Root Certificate Authority (Help Net Security)
2017-01-30 20:13

Google is known for slipping fingers in many pies, so it should not come as a surprise that it has opted for starting its own Root Certificate Authority. With the increased implementation of HTTPS...

Google Launches Its Own Root Certificate Authority (SecurityWeek)
2017-01-27 20:20

Google launches root certificate authority (The Register)
2017-01-27 20:20

Google to Operate its Own Root CA (Threatpost)
2017-01-27 17:07

Google announced that it will operate its own root Certificate Authority, stood up by the acquisition of two root CAs from GlobalSign.

Android Scoring System Roots Out Malicious, Harmful Apps (Threatpost)
2017-01-19 15:00

Google this week explained how it weighs potentially harmful Android apps using the Verify Apps malware scanner and a scoring system it calls Dead or Insecure.

Nagios Core Patches Root, RCE Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2016-12-16 16:00

Nagios Core has been updated to take care of two critical vulnerabilities that can be pinned together to attack servers hosting the open source IT infrastructure monitoring software.

Nagios 4.2.4 closes serious root privilege escalation bug (Help Net Security)
2016-12-16 13:30

If you’re using Nagios to monitor your systems, networks and infrastructure, and you have not updated to version 4.2.4, you better hop to it. This latest release fixes a high severity root...