Security News

Preventing and detecting insider threats (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 08:09

SANS surveyed 772 IT security professionals regarding their experiences preventing and detecting insider threats within their organizations. Although 74 percent are concerned primarily with emplo...

DARPA to create software systems that last 100 years (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 07:33

As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability, users have become accustomed to periodic cycles of updating and upgrading to avoid obsolescence—if at some cost...

Worldwide IT spending to decline in 2015 (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 07:09

Worldwide IT spending is set to shrink to $3.66 trillion in 2015, a 1.3 percent decrease from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. "We forecast U.S.-dollar-valued worldwide IT spendin...

Alec Baldwin to deliver closing RSA Conference 2015 keynote (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 07:00

Television and film star Alec Baldwin will be part of the closing ceremonies for RSA Conference 2015 taking place on Friday, April 24th in San Francisco, CA. Celebrated as one of the most recogniza...

Multi-platform AlienSpy RAT targeting consumers, enterprises (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 05:12

A new Java-based, multi-platform remote access trojan (RAT) is being used to target both consumers and enterprise users. It's called AlienSpy RAT and, according to researchers of security firm Fide...

122 online forums compromised to redirect visitors to Fiesta exploit kit (Help Net Security)
2015-04-10 05:12

Over a hundred forum websites have been compromised and injected with code that redirects users to sites hosting the Fiesta exploit kit, Cyphort researchers have found. These are not highly popular...

Pepper-Spray Drones (Schneier on Security)
2015-04-09 21:51

India has purchased pepper-spray drones....