Security News

D-Link Agrees to 10 Years of Security Audits to Settle FTC Charges
2019-07-03 11:33

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has agreed to implement a "comprehensive software security program" in order to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleging that the...

How to install the OpenVAS security audit tool on Ubuntu Server 18.04
2019-03-11 17:24

Learn how to install the open source security audit tool, OpenVAS, on the Ubuntu Server platform.

How to install the OpenVAS Security Audit Tool on Ubuntu Server 18.04
2019-02-25 00:54

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing the open source security audit tool, OpenVAS, on the Ubuntu Server platform.

WP Security Audit Log: Keeping a watchful eye on your WordPress sites
2018-07-09 12:15

WordPress is, without a doubt, the most popular website management system in use. The latest statistics put the number of websites running on WordPress over 60 million, and those include many...

Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps
2018-03-07 12:00

When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and regular security audits...

Health Net Cited for Refusing a Security Audit
2018-02-22 21:18

Why Do Some Companies Reject Security Scrutiny?A government watchdog agency alleges that insurer Health Net of California has refused to cooperate in a security audit called for under a federal...

Mozilla Conducts Security Audit of Firefox Accounts (Security Week)
2017-07-19 13:09

Mozilla has asked Germany-based security firm Cure53 to conduct an audit of the Firefox Accounts system and researchers identified a total of 15 issues, including vulnerabilities rated critical...

Critical RCE Flaw Found in OpenVPN that Escaped Two Recent Security Audits (The Hackers News)
2017-06-22 01:08

A security researcher has found four vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug, in OpenVPN, those were not even caught in the two big security audits of the open source VPN...

Security audit of Dovecot mailserver reveals good security practices (Help Net Security)
2017-01-17 16:37

Dovecot – a popular open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems – is as secure as its developers claim it is. A security audit performed by German security outfit Cure 53 revealed...

OpenVPN to get two separate security audits (Help Net Security)
2016-12-09 20:41

VPN service Private Internet Access (PIA) announced that they have contracted noted and well-reputed cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green to perform a security audit of OpenVPN. However, it seems that...