Security News

New Dyre variant outsmarts AV researchers' sandboxes (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 13:41

Since it was first spotted in June 2014, the Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan has become extremely popular with cyber crooks, and especially those that target businesses. The malware owes its success to ...

EllisLab servers breached by hackers wielding stolen admin password (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 12:41

EllisLab, the company behind the popular ExpressionEngine CMS, has suffered a breach after hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to its servers. "At 10:49am PDT on March 24, 2015, an attacker...

Mozilla pushes for full HTTPS use (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 11:32

Mozilla has announced they are planning to deprecate non-secure HTTP. "After a robust discussion on our community mailing list, Mozilla is committing to focus new development efforts on the secure ...

Las Vegas' Hard Rock casino hit by carders (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 10:44

Las Vegas' popular Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has been hit by carders, who took off with names, card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes (but not PIN numbers or other information) of customers wh...

Securing the smart grid: European Network of Cyber Security (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 07:03

Dr. Klaus Kursawe is the Chief Scientist at the European Network of Cyber Security (ENCS), where he is leading the research and development activities for critical infrastructure security. In this int...

Social threat intelligence (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 06:27

There's been an explosion of companies that realized threat intelligence was the next frontier. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2015, Trevor Welsh, Sales Engineering Manager at ThreatStr...