Help Net Security newsletters: Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here!

Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally.
Visual Android Trojan as virtual theft aid

The rise of mobile malware in the last few years has been well documented, and the latest reports show that malware sending out text messages to premium rate numbers is the …

White House Military Office breached by Chinese hackers

Following the recent confirmation by a senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Cyber Command that the Pentagon systems and networks are constantly under cyber attacks and …

IEEE password compromise was due to proxy “anomaly”

Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin has revealed last week that he found the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …

Major U.S. banks still under DDoS attack

PNC Bank seems to be the latest target of the organized DDoS attacks agains major U.S. financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, …

Adobe admits breach, will revoke compromised code signing certificate

Adobe has confirmed that one of their build servers that has access to the Adobe code signing infrastructure has been compromised, allowing attackers to digitally sign two …

Mozilla launches its privacy-friendly website login system

Remember Mozilla’s introduction of the BrowserID browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users? Well, the login system that was created a …

The economy behind ransomware attacks

First spotted in Russia in 2005, ransomware attacks have since spread to other countries – mainly those of the Western world – by using geo-location to target …

Australian police disrupts sophisticated credit card fraud syndicate

A husband and wife were arrested today in Ryde, New South Wales, following what was dubbed as one of the most most serious identity crime investigations undertaken by the …

Samsung fixes Galaxy S3 bug, researchers offer fix for other phones

Given the amount of information we all keep on our smartphones, it’s no wonder that the recently demonstrated Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack has ruffled quite a …

Fake Visa/Mastercard “Security incident” notifications doing rounds

Bogus emails purportedly sent by the Visa/Mastercard “Identity Theft Department” are targeting the cards’ users by trying to convince them that a …

“Watering hole” sites crucial to new cyber espionage campaign

RSA’s newly dubbed FirstWatch research team has recently presented their findings on a “water holing” campaign that they first spotted back in July. The …

Bogus Facebook photo notification carries malware

A new Facebook-themed spam campaign is targeting the social network’s users, trying to trick them into opening the attached file: “The attached ZIP file has the …

Don't miss

Cybersecurity news
Daily newsletter sent Monday-Friday
Weekly newsletter sent on Mondays
Editor's choice newsletter sent twice a month
Periodical newsletter released when there is breaking news
Weekly newsletter listing new cybersecurity job positions
Monthly newsletter focusing on open source cybersecurity tools