Security News

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...

Newly Found Malware Uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools, Where WannaCry Uses 2 (The Hackers News)
2017-05-22 16:03

A security researcher has identified a new strain of malware that also spreads itself by exploiting flaws in Windows SMB file sharing protocol, but unlike the WannaCry Ransomware that uses only...

Available Tools Making Dent in WannaCry Encryption (Threatpost)
2017-05-19 17:04

Tools are beginning to emerge that can be used to begin the process of recovering files encrypted by WannaCry on some Windows systems.