Security News

Researchers mount cyber attacks against surgery robot (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 14:50

A group of researchers from University of Washington have tested the security of a teleoperated robotic surgery system created by their colleagues, and have found it severely lacking. "Teleoperated...

Police dismantle gang of online fraudsters and romance scammers (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 13:52

The Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), supported by Europol, arrested 10 members of a transnational criminal group. The criminals, mainly Nigerian citizens, were involved in laundering the...

Banking Trojan delivered to companies via macro-based malware (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 13:11

Cybercriminals continue targeting enterprises with malicious emails whose ultimate goal is to infect company computers with the Dyre/Dyreza banking malware. But instead of delivering the Upatre do...

Email delivery service SendGrid confirms data breach (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 11:19

Sendgrid, the email delivery and management service that counts among its clients companies like Pinterest, Airbnb and Uber, has admitted that they have been breached. "On April 8, the SendGrid acc...

There's now a decryption tool for TeslaCrypt ransomware (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 10:35

Here's some very good news for victims of the TeslaCrypt ransomware: Cisco researchers have created a tool for them to decrypt the files themselves and avoid paying the asked for ransom. First spot...

Big Data and analytics are changing the cybersecurity landscape (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 08:00

Stealing media headlines with a new breach almost every week, cybersecurity has skyrocketed to the top of boardroom discussion agendas. Yet an average of 35 percent of all cyberattacks still go undete...

Security still the top issue preventing payments investment (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 07:54

A new payments survey of more than 1,100 executives representing banks, retailers and billing organizations across the world revealed that although 80 percent of them understand they are at risk of cu...

Only 57% of critical IT infrastructure issues are detected before business impact (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 07:09

Organizations large and small are struggling to meet their Key Performance Indicator (KPI) goals and prevent IT issues before they adversely impact the business, according to Continuity Software. ...

The value of patching and how to do it properly (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 07:07

Patching has been the stalwart of the information security community for at least the last 15 years. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2015, Wolfgang Kandek, CTO at Qualys, talks about the...

A closer look at LepideAuditor for File Server (Help Net Security)
2015-04-28 07:00

Organizations host file servers to store critical data to and valuable information about its business, customers, and employees. Access to file servers is authorized only for a few trusted users, but ...