Security News

Email Servers For More Than Half of World’s Top Sites Can Be Spoofed (Threatpost)
2016-06-22 19:26

More than half of the world's top sites suffer from misconfigured email servers, something that heightens the risk of having spoofed emails sent from their domains, researchers warn.

Ransomware A Two-Year Nightmare in the Making (Threatpost)
2016-06-22 17:23

The last two years have seen an astounding growth in the number of people encountering ransomware.

Advantech Patches WebAccess Remote Code Execution Flaws (Threatpost)
2016-06-22 16:27

Advantech has published a new version of its WebAccess product to address vulnerabilities that put installations at risk to remote code execution attacks.

Google Simplifies Two-Step Verification (Threatpost)
2016-06-21 20:26

Google has simplified its 2-step verification feature with a basic prompt users can take advantage of as a second form of authentication.

Bitcoin Phishing Campaign Uncovered (Threatpost)
2016-06-21 19:35

For the last month attackers have been using a combination of phishing and typosquatting in order to carry out a Bitcoin phishing campaign.

Meet the 18-Year-Old Who Hacked the Pentagon (Threatpost)
2016-06-21 19:15

The Department of Defense last week released the results of the first Hack the Pentagon bounty program and 18-year-old David Dworken was among those who participated.

Dept. of Justice Makes Plea for Mass Surveillance, Hacking (Threatpost)
2016-06-21 16:00

The Department of Justice is countering a growing chorus of privacy advocates who are against a rule change that will greatly expand law enforcement’s ability to hack into computers located around...

Apple Patches AirPort Remote Code Execution Flaw (Threatpost)
2016-06-21 14:08

Apple has patched a remote code execution vulnerability in its AirPort base stations, AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule.

GoToMyPC Suffers Major Password Reuse Attack (Threatpost)
2016-06-20 21:53

Citrix Systems is forcing all its GoToMyPC remote desktop access service customers to reset their passwords because of a “very sophisticated attack” that targeted the service over the weekend.

xDedic Scope May Be Larger Than Originally Thought (Threatpost)
2016-06-20 17:55

New data shared with Kaspersky Lab could enlarge the scope of the xDedic marketplace of hacked servers.