Security News

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

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...