Security News

Crypto Leaders: ‘Exceptional Access’ Will Undo Security (Threatpost)
2015-07-07 17:06

Thirteen cryptography leaders and pioneers published a paper warning of the economic and social pitfalls associated with the government's desire for "exceptional access" to cryptographic keys.

Another malware building toolkit leaked, botnets already popping up (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 14:49

Another malware building toolkit has been leaked, allowing less tech-savvy crooks to generate a fully functional variant of the KINS banking Trojan and to inject its configuration code in a JPG file i...

Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 12:35

Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies? A hacker who goes by "Phineas...

Hackers targeting users of Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and Santander (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 11:15

19,000 malicious emails have been sent in three days from spam servers worldwide, inviting users to download an archive containing a malicious .exe file. Bitdefender warns that the file acts as a d...

Fake Android battery monitor app thoroughly compromises users' devices (Help Net Security)
2015-07-07 09:42

Downloading apps from Google Play is a safer proposition that doing it from third party markets, but it still does not guarantee that you won't download a malicious app, despite Google using an automa...