Security News

Superfish not the only app using Komodia's SSL-busting code (Help Net Security)
2015-02-23 14:21

As Lenovo backtracked on its initial position that the Superfish adware pre-installed on some of its notebooks is not a security danger, and released a security advisory about the "vulnerability" that...

CTOs targeted with tax-themed phishing emails carrying malware (Help Net Security)
2015-02-23 13:59

Tax-themed phishing emails targeting CTOs of tech companies have been spotted by researchers at Talos, Cisco’s security intelligence and research group. The initial emails, sent from a spoofed .gov...

Flaw in Cisco routing hardware makes it vulnerable to DoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-02-23 12:31

A serious vulnerability affecting the software of some of Cisco's routing hardware systems for telecommunications and Internet service providers could be exploited to mount DoS attacks, the company ha...

How important is the critical information infrastructure? (Help Net Security)
2015-02-23 12:16

ENISA issued methodologies for the identification of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) services in communication networks. This study provides state of the art methodologies, and suggests...

96% say ISO 27001 is important for improving security defenses (Help Net Security)
2015-02-23 10:52

Already established as international best practice, the information security management standard ISO 27001 has become an effective weapon in the fight against cyber crime. It is therefore unsurprising...