March 2016

Amazon’s “Selfie Authentication” allows the site’s customers to user facial recognition to authenticate themselves to the website in order to make a purchase. While not …

Many high profile database breaches have resulted from the abuse of legitimate logon credentials. Identifying these apparent “insider threats” requires a new …

Lynis is a popular open source security auditing tool, used to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux/Unix-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it performs …

The increasing popularity of DDoS attacks as a tool to disrupt, harass, terrorize and sabotage online businesses is boosting demand for mitigation solutions. In the face of …

Week in review: Android adware infiltrates devices’ firmware, malvertising hits big Internet players, iOS design flaw lets malware in Here’s an overview of some of last …

With a public service announcement compiled jointly with the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, the FBI has announced …

Dubbed Gmobi by Dr. Web researchers, the malware comes in the form of a software development kit (SDK), and has been found in several legitimate applications by well-known …

MITRE’s short-term solution to the problem of slow CVE assignment is to set up an experimental system for issuing federated CVE IDs using a new format. “(…) …

People tend to think about privacy in terms of the individual, but it is also critically important for the proper functioning of any business organization. This is being made …

Jacob Torrey is an Advising Research Engineer at Assured Information Security, where he leads the Computer Architectures group. He has worked extensively with low-level x86 …

A test of seven OEM laptops running Windows has shown consistent privacy and security issues, including an interesting revelation that the McAfee Antivirus running on six of …

With over 125 million active users, Valve’s Steam is the most popular online gaming platform in the world and, consequently, forms a huge pool of targets for cyber …