Security News

Convicted Tax Fraudster & Fugitive Caught (Krebs on Security)
2015-03-19 04:02

Lance Ealy, an Ohio man who fled home confinement last year just prior to his conviction on charges of filing phony tax refund requests on more than 150 Americans, was apprehended in a pre-dawn...

Double FREAK! A cryptographic bug that was found because of the FREAK bug (Naked Security)
2015-03-18 22:24

Researchers checking up on the state of FREAK patching turned up another bug as a result. Sometimes, finding programming mistakes requires serendipitous coincidences!

OpenSSL Patch to Plug Severe Security Holes (Krebs on Security)
2015-03-18 14:35

The world is about to get another reminder about just how much of the Internet runs on technology maintained by a handful of coders working on a shoestring budget. OpenSSL -- the software used by...

Google aims to make Play Store safer, sets up human app review team (Help Net Security)
2015-03-18 13:07

The time has come for Google to add some more hoops for Android app developers to jumpt through in order to get their offering accepted to the Google Play store. The first change is meant to block ...

SSCC 190 - The CeBIT 2015 edition [PODCAST] (Naked Security)
2015-03-18 12:48

Recorded right on the Sophos booth at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. Here's the Fifth Anniversary edition of our weekly podcast...enjoy!

Personal, healthcare info of over 11M Premera customers compromised (Help Net Security)
2015-03-18 12:44

US healthcare provider Premera Blue Cross has suffered a data breach that resulted in a potential compromise of personal, financial and health-related information of as many as 11 million applicants a...

Do your attackers know your network better than you? (Help Net Security)
2015-03-18 12:35

Cyber crime is a lucrative business. In fact, to make the cyber attack as profitable as possible and to minimize the risk of getting caught, attackers and black hat hackers take their time and will in...