Security News

Web/Mobile App Security: What's 'Good Enough?'
2019-09-05 13:03

Paul Dant of Arxan on Measuring Application DefensesHow do organizations know if their app and network security is sufficient to protect them from data breaches - or if their defenses are even...

How much do you know about the Russian Dark Web?
2019-08-29 20:05

Security expert Charity Wright discusses the Dark Web in Russia, how the Dark Web is being used in Vietnam for anonymity from the government, China's surveillance efforts, and more.

Web clickjacking fraud makes a comeback thanks to JavaScript tricks
2019-08-29 14:30

More than a decade after hitting the headlines, clickjacking fraud remains an under-reported hazard on hundreds of popular websites.

Innovation on the Dark Web: How Bad Actors Are Keeping Pace
2019-08-29 13:00

How criminals have adapted to develop the next generation of dark markets and operations.

A ransomware revival leads to 2.2 billion stolen credentials on the dark web in Q1
2019-08-28 13:12

In a new report, McAfee Labs said cybercriminals were focusing in on attacking weak IoT devices and extracting huge troves of data from large companies.

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web
2019-08-23 15:30

27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged 'how-to' fraud guides A hacker from Kent has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.…

Google moves closer to letting Chrome web apps edit your files despite warning it could be 'abused in terrible ways'
2019-08-23 11:31

Using the new Native File System API, web apps would be able to read and save files, as well as gather info on files stored on your device.

The Joy of Six... critical security patches: Cisco small biz switches open to hijacking via web UI
2019-08-22 00:18

Plus UCS and more gear needs update: Turn it on, download these fixes, crank it up – and rip the KNOB off Cisco has emitted a fresh round of software updates to address security holes in its...

Here's a top tip: Don't trust the new guy – block web domains less than a month old. They are bound to be dodgy
2019-08-21 19:53

Better to be aggressive and safe than sorry IT admins could go a long way towards protecting their users from malware and other dodgy stuff on the internet if they ban access to any web domain...

No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devs
2019-08-20 21:21

Developer account cracked due to credential reuse, source tampered with and released to hundreds of programmers An old version of a Ruby software package called rest-client that was modified and...