Security News

Disjointed Tools Challenge Security Operations: Survey (Security Week)
2017-08-10 16:35

Insufficient staffing levels and quality, together with poor orchestration between too many security point products mean that complete breach intolerance is an aspiration not currently achieved by...

China's Web Users Fear Losing Tools to Bypass 'Great Firewall' (Security Week)
2017-08-07 19:02

Enterprising internet users in China fear the tools they use to tunnel through the country's "Great Firewall" may soon disappear, as Beijing tightens its grip on the web. read more

WikiLeaks Details Mac OS X Hacking Tools Used by CIA (Security Week)
2017-07-28 12:13

The latest round of documents published by WikiLeaks as part of a leak dubbed by the organization “Vault 7” describes several tools allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to...

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-28 11:16

In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different Windows vulnerabilities....

3 New CIA-developed Hacking Tools For MacOS & Linux Exposed (The Hackers News)
2017-07-27 09:19

WikiLeaks has just published a new set of classified documents linked to another CIA project, dubbed 'Imperial,' which reveals details of at least three CIA-developed hacking tools and implants...

Russia Moves to Ban Tools Used to Surf Outlawed Websites (Security Week)
2017-07-22 01:48

Russia's parliament on Friday voted to outlaw web tools that allow internet users to sidestep official bans of certain websites, the nation's latest effort to tighten controls of online services....

FreeRADIUS Update Patches Bugs Static Analysis Tools Missed (Threatpost)
2017-07-17 18:09

FreeRADIUS today released an update that patches a number of vulnerabilities uncovered in a commissioned engagement using a customer fuzzer.

The future of macOS security: Baked-in protection and third-party tools (Help Net Security)
2017-07-17 16:15

Anyone in the information security industry who’s interested in Mac security probably knows who Patrick Wardle is. Apart from being Chief Security Researcher at Synack, he’s also the creator of a...

Eye on Crime: Help Security Tools and Teams See What Matters (Security Week)
2017-07-11 12:58

I recently watched The Day of the Jackal, a 1973 thriller about a plot to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle. What started as a lark to see what Paris looked like in the early 70s...

CIA Tools for Stealing SSH Credentials Exposed by WikiLeaks (Security Week)
2017-07-07 09:17

WikiLeaks has published documents detailing BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon, tools allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to steal SSH credentials from Windows and Linux systems. read more