Security News

Spy Dust (Schneier on Security)
2015-05-20 13:06

Used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War: A defecting agent revealed that powder containing both luminol and a substance called nitrophenyl pentadien (NPPD) had been applied to doorknobs, the...

Bug in NetUSB code opens networking devices to remote code execution (Help Net Security)
2015-05-20 12:09

Researchers from SEC Consult have published details of a critical kernel stack buffer overflow vulnerability in NetUSB, a software component that provides "USB over IP" functionality and is included i...

New Logjam Attack on Diffie-Hellman Threatens Security of Browsers, VPNs (Threatpost)
2015-05-20 11:28

Researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that some servers handle the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a bug that’s somewhat similar to the FREAK attack and threatens the security of many Web and...

DDoS attacks double, old web application attack vectors still active (Help Net Security)
2015-05-20 09:18

Akamai Technologies analyzed thousands of DDoS attacks as well as nearly millions of web application attack triggers across the Akamai Edge network. A surge in DDoS attack activity Q1 2015 set a...