Security News

New alerts for Gmail users targeted by state-sponsored attackers (Help Net Security)
2016-03-29 21:31

Since 2012, Google has been warning Gmail users when they have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers, but now the alert will be even more visible (and therefore less likely to be overlooked...

Twitter’s Silence Deafening on State-Sponsored Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-01-20 13:00

A group of privacy advocates, who were notified by Twitter that their accounts were targeted in state-sponsored attacks, want some answers.

Yahoo to Warn Users of State-Sponsored Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-12-22 15:43

Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor.

Week in review: ScreenOS backdoor, Twitter warns about state-sponsored attacks, and MacKeeper data breach (Help Net Security)
2015-12-21 06:45

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Critical ScreenOS bugs allow undetectable decryption of VPN connections, device hijacking During a recent internal...