Security News

Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust (The Hackers News)
2017-07-20 08:12

It's finally confirmed — In a coordinated International operation, Europol along with FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) and Dutch National Police have seized and taken down AlphaBay, one of the...

Google Warns Users of Potentially Risky Web Apps (Security Week)
2017-07-19 14:45

Google is taking another step to better protect users from malicious third-party web applications: it is now warning users of newly created web apps and Apps Scripts that are pending verification....

eBook: Full Stack Web Performance (Help Net Security)
2017-07-17 21:42

Full Stack Web Performance is written for anyone grappling with the challenges of performance in a DevOps environment. Whether you’re a web developer, a DevOps engineer, an engineering manager or...

Dark web market Alpha Bay was shut down by law enforcement (Help Net Security)
2017-07-14 22:59

Dark web black market Alpha Bay went offline on June 5, leaving users to wonder whether its operators did it and ran off with their money. Reassurances that the market will be back online shortly...

Dark Web Market AlphaBay Goes Down (Security Week)
2017-07-14 17:08

AlphaBay, a Dark Web markerplace for illegal products, went down last week after authorities seized equipment following raids in three different countries. read more

Men stole bitcoin by phishing individuals on the dark web (Help Net Security)
2017-07-10 15:10

Michael Richo, a 35-year-old from Connecticut, had the brilliant idea of stealing bitcoin from people involved in illegal deals through dark web marketplaces. Perhaps he thought that he would be...

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Goes Down; Users Fear Exit-Scam (The Hackers News)
2017-07-06 01:17

AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods, suddenly disappeared overnight without any explanation from its admins, leaving its customers...

The role of web filtering in a modern security architecture (Help Net Security)
2017-06-30 16:05

In its most basic and simplest form, filtering access to content on the web can be achieved by rather blunt instruments such as DNS black-holes. And, in the early 2000s, this was more than enough....

Cybersecurity battleground shifting to Linux and web servers (Help Net Security)
2017-06-27 13:00

Despite an overall drop in general malware detection for the quarter, Linux malware made up more than 36 percent of the top threats identified in Q1 2017. This attack pattern demonstrates the...

Hackers extorted a cool $1 million from South Korean web hosting provider (Help Net Security)
2017-06-20 19:26

Whether through ransomware, or simply by breaking into computer systems and exfiltrating and deleting the data found on them with other means, cyber extortionists are going for the big fish:...