Security News

How safe are Android-based children’s tablets? (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 13:26

Looking for an Android-based tablet for your child but don't know which one to choose? If you are concerned about the security of your child's data - as you should be - and about the device's pro...

New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 12:44

Attackers are using Joomla servers with a vulnerable Google Maps plugin installed as a platform for launching DDoS attacks. A known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin for Joomla allows the plugi...

3 million strong RAMNIT botnet taken down (Help Net Security)
2015-02-25 12:21

The National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) worked with law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, co-ordinated through Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC...

"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...