Security News

New infostealer tries to foil analysis attempts by wiping hard drive (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 09:50

Cisco researchers have discovered a new information-stealing Trojan that reads and records any plain-text data the victim types into their browser. But this discovery would be nothing to write home ab...

The risks of moving data into cloud and mobile environments (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:36

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2015, Rich Campagna, VP, Products & Marketing at Bitglass, talks about how cloud and mobile and the the largest trends happening in enterprise IT today. T...

Crimeware infects one-third of computers worldwide (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:25

The APWG reports that during the 4th quarter of 2014, a record number of crimeware variants were detected, a strategy of overwhelming proliferation of variations designed to defeat antivirus software.

The enduring chasm between security teams and developers (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:24

The gap between application builders (developers and development organizations) and defenders (security and operations teams responsible for securing apps) is closing slightly, according to SANS. "...

Data security in the payments ecosystem (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:19

Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute asked professionals to weigh in on several topics including who should be responsible for securing payment systems and how effective their org...

Rapid7 acquires NT OBJECTives, offers web app scanning (Help Net Security)
2015-05-05 08:12

Rapid7 has acquired NT OBJECTives (NTO), expanding Rapid7’s Threat Exposure Management offering to further meet the needs of business infrastructures. NTO’s application security testing solution an...