Security News

Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching servers, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts
2018-11-07 05:01

BlackBox IronPhones' IronChat app convos intercepted Dutch police claim to have snooped on more than a quarter of a million encrypted messages sent between alleged miscreants using BlackBox IronPhones.…

‘DemonBot' Botnet Targets Hadoop Servers
2018-10-29 14:12

A newly discovered botnet is targeting Hadoop clusters in an attempt to leverage their computing power to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.  read more

How to install and run the Maltrail detection system on Ubuntu Server 18.04
2018-10-25 18:33

The Maltrail malicious behavior detection system eases the burden of constant vigilance on your Linux server.

Poorly secured SSH servers targeted by Chalubo botnet
2018-10-24 12:47

SophosLabs has detected a new DDoS botnet targeting poorly secured SSH servers - called Chalubo, it is named in honour of its use of the ChaCha stream cipher.

How to detect hardware-based server bugs
2018-10-22 18:43

Following controversy from a recent Bloomberg report, here's how you should approach auditing physical hardware security.

Server With National Guard Personnel Data Target of Attack
2018-10-19 13:41

The Indiana National Guard says a state, non-military computer server containing personal information on civilian and military Guard personnel was the target of a recent ransomware attack. The...

VestaCP users warned about possible server compromise
2018-10-19 11:03

Unknown attackers have compromised the official distribution of the VestaCP hosting control panel solution to harvest server IPs and admin credentials. That information was exploited to install...

Libssh Vulnerability Exposes Servers to Attacks
2018-10-17 20:12

Servers using libssh to implement the Secure Shell (SSH) remote login protocol may be vulnerable to attacks due to the existence of an authentication bypass flaw discovered recently by a...

Meet Helm, the startup taking on Gmail with a server that runs in your home
2018-10-17 17:52

$500 service couples the security of a private server with the reliability of the cloud.

libssh Authentication Bypass Makes it Trivial to Pwn Rafts of Servers
2018-10-17 17:08

The flaw affects thousands of servers; but GitHub, a major libssh user, is unaffected.