Security News

Adobe fixes Flash Player zero-day exploited in the wild (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 08:50

Adobe released a new version of Flash Player (17.0.0.169) for Windows and Macintosh, and for Linux (11.2.202.457). These security updates fix a host of critical vulnerabilities - 22 in all - most o...

Microsoft releases 11 security bulletins (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 07:30

Administrators and security teams are in for a busy day tackling 11 Microsoft security bulletins, Adobe updates and Oracle has pre-announced that their quarterly update scheduled to be released later ...

New trend in cybercriminal activity: APT wars (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 06:54

Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group targeting mostly government a...

Lack of skilled infosec pros creates high-risk environments (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 06:31

82 percent of organizations expect to be attacked in 2015, but they are relying on a talent pool they view as largely unqualified and unable to handle complex threats or understand their business. ...

Key trends for risk-prone behavior in the workforce (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 06:30

Businesses are ill prepared for the high-risk, high-growth mindset of the GenMobile workforce, creating alarming disparity around security practices in the corporate world. The chasm that is exposed b...

Compromised credentials haunt cloud app usage (Help Net Security)
2015-04-15 06:30

Netskope found that more than seven out of ten uploads from users with compromised accounts are to apps with a “poor” rating in the Netskope Cloud Confidence Index. Additionally, 21.6 percent of login...