Security News

Newsmaker Interview: Scott Helme on Securing the Web
2018-07-11 18:12

Scott Helme, the well-known security researcher, international speaker and the founder of the securityheaders.com and report-uri.com free tools for web security, has devoted himself to improving...

Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web
2018-07-11 17:19

Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off...

US military manuals hawked on dark web after files left rattling in insecure FTP server
2018-07-11 14:58

Wow, so servicemen forget to change their default logins too Sensitive US Air Force documents have leaked onto the dark web as part of an attempted sale of drone manuals.…

German web hosting firm DomainFactory suffers data breach
2018-07-09 16:06

DomainFactory, one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, has suffered a data breach. The breach dates back to January 29, 2018, and the attacker had access to the following data:...

Programmer tried to sell cyberweapon on dark web for $50M: Reminder to secure employees
2018-07-05 15:33

The incident offers a lesson to business leaders on how to deprovision employees facing dismissal and protect assets.

ThreatList: Exploit Kits Still a Top Web-based Threat
2018-07-02 18:32

Here is a look at what exploit kits, CVEs and other web-based threats are keeping security professionals working overtime in 2018.

Fake Bitcoin exchange traps drug dealers on the dark web
2018-07-02 14:37

As around 35 alleged drug vendors have found out to their cost, you never know who you’ll meet on the dark web. In the case of the customers of one money laundering operation, it turned out to be...

It's a bad, bad web ad world, and some hosting biz like it that way
2018-06-29 08:01

The cybercriminal's cash cow and the marketer's machine Special report Digital ad fraud is potentially lucrative, difficult to detect, and getting worse.…

Facebook shells out $8k bug bounty after quiz web app used by 120m people spews profiles
2018-06-28 20:02

Infosec bod shops NameTests, claims leaky code exposes info Facebook has forked out an $8,000 reward after a security researcher flagged up a third-party web app that potentially exposed up to 120...

Demystifying the Dark Web and Mitigating Risks
2018-06-28 15:13

Monitoring a Variety of Data Dources is Important to Understand Threats, Vulnerabilities and How to Manage Risk read more