Security News

Google Helps Lead Effort Against Automated Traffic From Data Centers (Threatpost)
2015-07-21 18:10

Google is helping to lead a new effort to reduce the amount of fraudulent traffic that emanates from data centers and produces artificial clicks on ads. The collaborative initiative will rely on...

Car Hacking Gets the Attention of Detroit and Washington (Threatpost)
2015-07-21 16:39

Car hacking is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is evolving at a frighteningly quick pace. While just a year or two ago security researchers were still trying to work out exactly how the...

Possible Breach Results in Shutdown of Many Retail Photo Services (Threatpost)
2015-07-21 13:26

A potential data breach at a third-party provider has resulted in the shut down of retail photo-printing services at a number of chains, including CVS, Costco, Rite Aid, and several others. The...

Microsoft Issues Critical, Out-of-Band Patch for All Versions of Windows (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 19:04

Microsoft released an out-of-band patch Monday that addresses a critical remote flaw with the way Adobe Type Manager Library handles OpenType fonts in all versions of Windows.

Google Calls Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules ‘Not Feasible’ (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 18:38

As the clock winds down on the comment period for the United States government’s proposed implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement export controls for intrusion software, Google officials say...

New Campaign Targeting Japanese with HackingTeam Zero Day (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 15:27

Yet another group of attackers has quickly cashed in on one of the Adobe Flash zero days uncovered in the HackingTeam leak and is leveraging it to target Japanese organizations.

Free Tool Looks for HackingTeam Malware (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 15:22

Researchers at Rook Security have released a new tool that looks for HackingTeam malware on target systems, and also have published a set of indicators of compromise to help organizations look for...

BGP Security Alerts Coming to Twitter (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 14:00

At Black Hat, researchers from OpenDNS are expected to launch a new Twitter feed called BGP Stream that will send out alerts on possible BGP and DNS hijacking attacks.

Netragard Shutters Controversial Exploit Acquisition Program (Threatpost)
2015-07-20 13:23

Netragard, one of the small number of companies that buys and sells exploits, has shut down its exploit acquisition program in the wake of the HackingTeam breach. Among the revelations in the...

Threatpost News Wrap, July 17, 2015 (Threatpost)
2015-07-17 14:51

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about all of the patches from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle, the Flash security saga and the Darkode forum takedown.