Google adds (some) malware and phishing info to Transparency Report
Google adds (some) malware and phishing info to Transparency Report
Microsoft's Big Bucks For Bugs Ups The Ante
A Posting from Dark Reading in there Application Security section: When Microsoft senior security strategist Katie Moussouris was asked two years ago whether Microsoft would ever consider a bug bounty program of its own, she left the door open ever so slightly on whether the software giant would abandon its longtime philosophy of not paying […]
'BinaryPig' Uses Hadoop To Sniff Out Patterns In Malware
A Posting from Dark Reading in there Threat Intelligence section: As the menagerie of malware collected by security firms continues to multiply, researchers are looking for new ways to analyze the massive data sets to find interesting information in their malware zoos. At the Black Hat Security Briefings in late July, one trio of researchers […]
Taking a closer look at the Glazunov exploit kit
A posting from Naked Security on Glazunov exploit kit: The one I have chosen has been quite active of late, and has a few interesting characteristics I wanted to highlight. As it happens, I do not actually know its "official" name (as in the name assigned by the author), but it was originallychristened Glazunov by another researcher tracking […]
Tech Insight: Quick Wins For Strengthening SMB Security
A posting from Dark reading in there SMB Security section. Big or small, companies are being hacked every day no matter their size. Small businesses ask, "Why me? I don't have anything worth stealing." Yet they don't realize how useful their high-speed Internet connections are as new launch points for brute-force SSH scans and DDoS […]
EU's Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate
A posting from Naked Security on Cybersecurty Strategy : A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union's plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don't provide enough protection for personal data. In the same statement, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and […]
Texas becomes first US state to ban warrantless email snooping
A posting from Naked Security: Texas has become the first US state to ban email snooping without a warrant. Governor Rick Perry signed the new privacy bill - HB 2268 - into law on Friday. It went into effect immediately. The bill enacts a law that sets Texas residents apart from the other 49 states by protecting […]
Beware Of HTML5 Development Risks
A posting from Dark Reading in there Application Security section: As HTML5 continues to experience a groundswell of acceptance within the developer community, organizations must think seriously about how key changes in this latest standard will require them to shift their application security paradigms for Web and mobile apps. Designed to help developers more closely […]
Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone
A posting from Naked Security: Blackberry released two security bulletins yesterday, fixing flaws in its software for the Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry Z10 smartphone. BSRT-2013-005 affects both the Z10 and the Playbook and fixes vulnerabilities in the bundled Adobe Flash Player. This raises an important question in my mind, though. Why on earth has Blackberry launched […]