Terracotta VPN hijacks servers for commercial gain
LAS VEGAS – The Terracotta commercial VPN, marketed in China under a number of different brand names, uses hacked servers to power its network and…
T-Mobile caught in crossfire of injected ad war with Flash Networks
LAS VEGAS – An ongoing conflict between website owners and ad injectors who place unwanted ads on those websites has just flared up into full-blown…
T-Mobile caught in crossfire of war over injected ads
UPDATE: Flash Networks comments have been added to the original story.LAS VEGAS – An ongoing conflict between website owners and ad injectors who place unwanted…
Neiman Marcus case a reminder to check your cyber coverage
In a decision that should send major corporations to double-check their cyberinsurance, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that retail customers could go ahead and…
Banks balance security and workflow when encrypting in the cloud
When financial institutions store data in the cloud, they use different kinds of encryption depending on security and workflow requirements, according to a new report…
Accuvant researchers to release open source RFID access tool
Security researchers have long known about the vulnerabilities of the RFID readers that many buildings use instead of door locks, but facilities managers have been…
Google Drive phishing is back — with obfuscation
If you have a Google account and a stranger sends you a link to a document on Google Drive, think twice before clicking — it…
Stagefright vulnerability allows criminals to send malware by text
Vulnerabilities in Android’s “Stagefright” code allows criminals to send malware to any user via text message — and the user gets infected without even having…
HP: 100% of smartwatches have security flaws
In a recent security assessment of ten smartwatches and their iOS and Android companion applications, every single watch had at least one significant security flaw,…
InfoSec pros spend most time, money on self-inflicted problems
According to a new survey of Black Hat attendees released last week, InfoSec professionals are spending the biggest amount of their time and budgets on…
How to surf the Dark Web for fun and profit
Life is tough if you’re a criminal.Sure, one big score can set you up for life. If you’re smart and disciplined, you can retire early.…
Data explosion offers challenges, opportunities to security pros
230 million patients. 3,300 hospitals. 900,000 healthcare professionals. 98 percent of U.S. pharmacies. More than 700 different electronic health record platforms. 764 million medication histories.…
Regulators seek to limit security software exports
The comment period on a proposed set of software export restrictions ends next Monday, and the rules, as written, would severely restrict international sales, deployment,…
Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 25 years of defending online privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the digital world’s top watchdog when it comes to privacy and free expression. But while cops and firefighters are often…
Report: Malvertisers now using SSL redirects
Advertising networks have gotten better at spotting malicious downloads embedded into advertisements, so criminals began using redirects, even chains of a dozen redirects or more,…
‘Butterfly’ group goes after corporate IP
Symantec has identified a group of cybercriminals, whom they’ve named “Butterfly,” as targeting corporate intellectual property for financial gains, with Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft…
Malvertising reaches record levels in June
Malvertising campaigns have reached more users than ever before, reported security firm Invincea yesterday, with many brand-name websites affected — including CBS Sports, Yahoo and…
Top global security experts defend encryption
As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing…
Despite warnings, majority of firms still run some Windows Server 2003
Enterprises are still heavily dependent on Windows Server 2003 even though there were plenty of warnings that support is coming to an end on July…
IEEE group recommends random MAC addresses for Wi-Fi security
According to new recommendations by an IEEE study group, the Wi-Fi protocol needs to be updated to use randomly generated addresses for better security and…
Scammers bypass Google filters with PDF cloaking
Scammers have long used cloaking as a technique to drive up search engine rankings, stuffing webpages full of keywords and links that make them attractive…
Report: Every company is compromised, but most infections not yet at critical stage
In a recent analysis of a quarter million endpoint devices in 40 enterprises, every single corporate network showed evidence of a targeted intrusion but most…
Agencies need to pay more attention to supply chain security
Government agencies seeking the lowest bidders typically overlook cybersecurity when awarding contracts, and data breaches are the result, says a security rating expert.According to a…
Who’s winning the mobile payments war?
Mobile payments — using your phone instead of a credit card to make purchases at retail locations — has not taken off. Yet.To read this…
5 non-traditional hiring tips for InfoSec
There’s a dramatic shortage of qualified information security professionals in the industry today. Globally, we’re a million people short, according to Cisco’s 2014 Annual Security…
Tools catch security holes in open source code
This year has been the best of times and the worst of times for open source code and security. On the one hand, the latest…
10 tips to attract women to infosec jobs
Women make up just 11 percent of information security professionals. Just increasing that number to 22 percent would solve the industry’s staffing shortage problem. Unfortunately,…
How to get creative with your penetration testing
While there are plenty of standardized methods for penetration testing that we’re all familiar with, the bad guys aren’t sticking to traditional methods for…
You Need to Get Creative With Pen Testing. Here’s How to Do It.
Security professionals have long been running penetration tests against their firewalls and other security systems to find weaknesses that need to be addressed. The Common…
Forgotten risks hide in legacy systems
Cover story These days, there’s no shortage of new business technologies and new threat vectors to the enterprise. But what many companies forget is that…