March 2016

Bad bots are used by fraudsters and are the key culprits behind web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, data theft, …

The US Justice Department unsealed on Thursday an indictment charging seven Iranian computer specialists for conducting a coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service …

An OS X zero day vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass System Integrity Protection, Apple’s newest protection feature, and to escalate their privileges, simplifying …

Oracle has issued an emergency security update for Java to plug a critical flaw (CVE-2016-0636) that could be exploited by luring users to visit a web page hosting the …

In my work as a penetration tester for SureCloud, I’m often asked to look at unusual, out-of-the-ordinary vulnerabilities. This was the case when a major UK financial …

RSA security researcher Rotem Kerner has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability that affects digital video recorders (DVRs) sold by more than 70 different vendors …

In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2016, Court Little, Director of Product Management at Solutionary, talks about how the enterprise managed security services market …

The IRS is now taking up to 21 days to review a tax return. Last year, a similar tax return took seven days to review, according to iovation. This increase of taking up to …

Former US State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been sentenced to four years, and nine months in prison for perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, …

A group of researchers from ADAC, the largest automobile club in Germany and Europe, have demonstrated how the keyless “comfort locking” system used by most …

Microsoft is finally doing something about the increasing threat of malicious macros: it has added a new feature in Office 2016 that will block macros from loading in certain …

Nick Biasini is the Outreach Engineer at Cisco Talos. He has researched a wide range of topics including exploit kits and various malware campaigns being distributed through …