Security News

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own (Threatpost)
2015-09-04 12:30

HP, a longtime sponsor of the Pwn2Own hacking contests, has decided it will not participate in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own event in Japan because of concerns over the country’s implementation of the...

Cisco Patches File Overwrite Bug in IMC Supervisor and UCS Director (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 17:40

Cisco has patched a remote file-overwrite vulnerability in a couple of its products that could allow an attacker to replace arbitrary files and cause target systems to become unstable. The...

Cisco Patches File Overwrite Bug in IMC Supervisor and UCS Director (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 17:40

Cisco has patched a remote file-overwrite vulnerability in a couple of its products that could allow an attacker to replace arbitrary files and cause target systems to become unstable. The...

New Android Ransomware Communicates over XMPP (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 14:50

A new strain of Android ransomware disguised as a video player app uses an instant messaging protocol called XMPP to receive commands and communicate with the command and control server.

New Android Ransomware Communicates over XMPP (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 14:50

A new strain of Android ransomware disguised as a video player app uses an instant messaging protocol called XMPP to receive commands and communicate with the command and control server.

How I Got Here: Window Snyder (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 14:15

Dennis Fisher talks with Window Snyder of Fastly about her early interest in technology, what it was like meeting the L0pht crew at the MIT Flea as a teenager, her time at @stake, working on XP...

How I Got Here: Window Snyder (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 14:15

Dennis Fisher talks with Window Snyder of Fastly about her early interest in technology, what it was like meeting the L0pht crew at the MIT Flea as a teenager, her time at @stake, working on XP...

New Versions of Carbanak Banking Malware Seen Hitting Targets in U.S. and Europe (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 12:57

New variants of the notorious Carbanak Trojan have surfaced in Europe and the United States, and researchers say that the malware now has its own proprietary communications protocol and the...

New Versions of Carbanak Banking Malware Seen Hitting Targets in U.S. and Europe (Threatpost)
2015-09-03 12:57

New variants of the notorious Carbanak Trojan has surfaced in Europe and the United States, and researchers say that the malware now has its own proprietary communications protocol and the samples...

Netflix Sleepy Puppy Awakens XSS Vulnerabilities in Secondary Applications (Threatpost)
2015-09-02 18:21

Netflix released Sleepy Puppy, a cross-site scripting payload management framework, to open source. The tool finds XSS vulnerabilities in secondary applications.