Security News

Week in review: Researchers hack surgery robot, 5-year-old malware turns Linux servers into spamming machines (Help Net Security)
2015-05-04 05:03

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: The invasion of biometrics Depending on where you stand biometrics is a good thing or something that is do...

Are You Spending Your Information-Security Budget On The Wrong Technology? (Forbes)
2015-05-04 04:01

Senate panel raises privacy concerns in White House hacking incident (Yahoo Security)
2015-05-04 02:04

Hard Rock Hotel Casino reports possible credit card security breach (Yahoo Security)
2015-05-04 00:05

China blames hacking attack for recent Internet problems (Yahoo Security)
2015-05-04 00:05

Obsolete platforms security guidance aka how to defend (Reddit)
2015-05-04 00:05

Friday Squid Blogging: Ceramic Squid Planters (Schneier on Security)
2015-05-01 21:16

Nice....

Digital Privacy Public Service Announcement (Schneier on Security)
2015-05-01 19:43

I thought this was very well done....

Ears as a Biometric (Schneier on Security)
2015-05-01 17:46

It's an obvious biometric for cell phones: Bodyprint recognizes users by their ears with 99.8% precision with a false rejection rate of only 1 out of 13. Grip, too. News story. EDITED TO ADD: I...

Researcher neutralizes Google's Password Alert with a few lines of code (Help Net Security)
2015-05-01 09:36

Google's Password Alert extension for Chrome, which was released on Wednesday, has received its first critical security update less than 24 hours later, as infosec consultant Paul Moore came up with a...