Security News

"Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems" (Schneier on Security)
2015-02-25 12:09

New paper: "Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems," by Bruce Schneier, Matthew Fredrikson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Thomas Ristenpart. Abstract: Revelations over the past couple of years...

Gemalto says NSA and GCHQ intrusions "probably happened" (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 09:37

"The investigation into the intrusion methods described in the document and the sophisticated attacks that Gemalto detected in 2010 and 2011 give us reasonable grounds to believe that an operation by ...

Researchers create automated signature compiler for exploit detection (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 08:29

A trio of researchers from Microsoft and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have created Kizzle, a compiler for generating signatures for detecting exploit kits delivering JavaScript to browsers. The...

Known weaknesses plague the security threat landscape (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 08:25

Well-known issues and misconfigurations contributed to the most formidable threats in 2014, according to HP Security Research. “Many of the biggest security risks are issues we’ve known about for...

Addressing cybersecurity business disruption attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 08:22

Although the frequency of a cybersecurity attack on a large scale is low, by 2018, 40 percent of large enterprises will have formal plans to address aggressive cybersecurity business disruption attack...