Security News

Google updated its Transparency Report, reporting a record number of government requests for data, and that it received at least one National Security Letter during the second half of 2015.

Facebook announced this week that its paid out more than $5 million to 900 researchers in the five years since it implemented its bug bounty program.

A vulnerability in Cisco’s meeting server software allows a remote attacker to masquerade as legit user.

Akamai warns that attackers are compromising IOT devices and using them as proxies to test stolen credentials against web-based applications.

One year after kicking off monthly Android security updates and Google still is way behind Apple when it comes to patching.

Women’s accessories giant Vera Bradley is reporting a breach of its retail store point-of-sale system.

Open Whisper Systems announced that it has added the disappearing messages feature to the Signal encrypted messaging app.

Mike Mimoso talks to Cigital CTO and software security pioneer Gary McGraw about the latest results pulled from the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM).

The head of an international nuclear energy consortium said this week that a cyber attack caused a ‘disruption’ at a nuclear power plant in the last several years.

Microsoft released 10 security bulletins on Patch Tuesday that included patches for five zero day vulnerabilities under attack that had not been publicly disclosed until today.