Security News

AWS Launches New Tools for Firewalls, Certificates, Credentials
2018-04-05 05:19

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Wednesday the launch of several tools and services designed to help customers manage their firewalls, use private certificates, and safely store credentials....

One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites: Flood them with bogus info using browser tools
2018-04-01 00:00

Call for software to throw badly behaved biz in fake data tar pits Ad and JavaScript blocking is not enough to thwart privacy invasions by the likes of Facebook: more active countermeasures are needed.…

Political ad campaign biz AggregateIQ exposes tools, DB logins online
2018-04-01 00:00

Denies ties to Cambridge Analytica and insists it didn't knowingly break the law AggregateIQ – a Canadian political advertising firm that played a role in the 2016 US election and the UK's "Vote...

Axonius Uses Existing Tools to Find, Secure Devices
2018-03-27 14:36

Axonius emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with a platform designed to help organizations identify and secure all the devices on their network by leveraging existing security and management...

China-Linked APT15 Used Myriad of New Tools To Hack UK Government Contractor
2018-03-13 16:16

Cyber espionage group APT15 is back, this time stealing sensitive data from a UK government contractor.

Spend Less, Test Faster: Choosing the Right Security Tools
2018-03-13 16:10

People are creatures of habit. If we learn something one way, we’re prone to stick to it. Less in a “my way or the highway” sense and more so in a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” one. Not every...

Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers
2018-03-07 09:18

A years ago when the mysterious hacking group 'The Shadow Brokers' dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking...

Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts
2018-03-01 17:40

Researchers say cyrptojackers are bypassing ad-blocking software in an attempt to run in-browser cyrptocurrency miner Coinhive.

NSA-Linked Hacking Tools Ported to Metasploit
2018-02-06 11:33

Three hacking tools supposedly stolen from the National Security Agency-linked Equation Group and made public last year were recently ported to Rapid7’s Metasploit Framework. read more