Security News

Security Experts Hack Teleoperated Surgical Robot
2015-04-27 16:01

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537001/security-experts-hack-teleoperated-surgical-robot/ MIT Technology Review Emerging Technology From the arXiv April 24, 2015

Planning for the Internet of Things (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 13:45

As organizations plan for the future, and how security has to operate within their business, they now have to worry about the Internet of Things (IoT). There's a clear need to put in place the righ...

WordPress vulnerable to yet another, still to be patched XSS flaw (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 13:18

The latest WordPress version (4.2, released on Thursday) and several earlier ones are vulnerable to a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be exploited to inject JavaScript in Word...

Successful POS attacks are the result of poor security, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 11:57

Most data breaches involving payment card information - and there have been too many in the last two years - can be traced back to a lack of implementation of security measures. Most breaches invol...

How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 10:37

The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China's internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the world's largest code hosting se...

The invasion of biometrics (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 08:12

Depending on where you stand biometrics is a good thing or something that is downright sinister. The truth is that to a degree biometric technologies have a valid and useful purpose but also have the ...

NSA surveillance since Snowden revelations is strong as ever (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 07:06

A Thycotic survey of 202 RSA Conference 2015 attendees found that 94% feel that NSA’s surveillance of U.S. citizens has increased or remained the same since Edward Snowden leaked classified informatio...

Lepide Exchange Migration Services launched (Help Net Security)
2015-04-27 06:59

Lepide Software launched Lepide Exchange Migration Services – a remote, end-to-end migration services for doing Exchange-to-Exchange (on-premise) migrations and Exchange to Office 365 migration remote...