X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
2015-10-20
THE CHIP-ENABLED CREDIT card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a doubleRead More →
Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users’ personal info
2015-10-19
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policyRead More →
Facebook Will Warn Users When State-Sponsored Groups Are Trying to Hack Their Accounts
2015-10-19
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new systemRead More →
FinFisher Spyware Becomes More Popular Among Government Agencies
2015-10-19
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at leastRead More →
Yahoo only the latest at “kill the password” altar
2015-10-17
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
Russian Hackers of Dow Jones Said to Have Sought Trading Tips
2015-10-17
A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade onRead More →
How to prevent HSTS tracking in Firefox
2015-10-16
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) was designed to help secure websites (those using HTTPS) by declaring to web browsers that they should communicate only via HTTPS with the server toRead More →
Brolux trojan targeting Japanese online bankers
2015-10-16
A banking trojan, detected by ESET as Win32/Brolux.A, is targeting Japanese internet banking users and spreading through at least two vulnerabilities: a Flash vulnerability leaked in the Hacking Team hackRead More →
How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connections
2015-10-16
Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget. For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic softwareRead More →
Video Explainer: How Criminals Can Easily Hack Your Chip & PIN Card
2015-10-15
You may be under the impression that the new EMV chip system for credit card payments is nice and secure. But the UK’s been using it since 2003 — soRead More →
