Security News

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

HTTPS Certificate Revocation is broken, and it’s time for some new tools (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-03 12:00

Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can't get here fast enough.

Australia Pushes 'Five Eyes' for Tools to Counter Encryption (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-26 13:18

But Australia Doesn't Want Backdoors. So What Does It Want?Worried about the use of encryption by terrorists, Australia plans to lobby its key signal intelligence partners at a meeting in Canada...

BAE Systems sold cyber-surveillance tools to autocratic regimes (Help Net Security)
2017-06-16 19:15

British multinational BAE Systems has sold sophisticated surveillance technology to many repressive governments in the Middle East and Africa, an investigation by BBC Arabic and Danish newspaper...

Fake news services and tools proliferate on online markets (Help Net Security)
2017-06-15 13:30

Fake news is not a new concept, but the Internet – and social media and networks in particular – have made it infinitely easier for it to spread and reach its target audience. The Internet has...

What’s really stopping users from adopting secure communication tools? (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 19:27

“Users’ goal to communicate with others overrides everything else, including security,” a group of researchers has concluded after interviewing sixty individuals about their experience with...

Hackers hosted tools on a Stanford University website for months (Help Net Security)
2017-06-01 15:00

Compromising legitimate websites and the web servers that store and deliver them is a time-honoured tactic of opportunistic hackers, and a failure to keep them out can result in the servers...