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Flaws in Android update mechanism could turn apps into malware

A group of researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft Research have unearthed six Android vulnerabilities that can be exploited to turn apparently harmless apps into …

10,000 GitHub users inadvertently reveal their AWS secret access keys

GitHub developers who are also Amazon Web Services users are advised to check the code they made public on their project pages and to delete secret access keys for their AWS …

Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed

Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, has managed to largely mitigate a DDoS attack that started today (March 24) at 8:46 central time and which made its services unavailable …

NSA compromised Huawei’s servers, spied on its executives

For years, the US government has been very vocal about its distrust of Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei, pointedly blocking acquisitions and takeovers that would allow …

Product pitch: ForgeRock Identity Relationship Management

In this product pitch recorded at RSA Conference 2014, Daniel Raskin, VP of Marketing at ForgeRock, talks about Identity Relationship Management. As more people, devices and …

Palo Alto Networks to acquire Cyvera

Palo Alto Networks announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cyvera, a privately held cybersecurity company located in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Under the terms of the agreement, …

New non-profit against cyber crime launches

Experts and companies in the information security industry formed the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF), a non-profit, community-driven organization devoted to the identification …

February spam highlights

Kaspersky Lab found that many malicious attachments in February’s spam came in emails allegedly sent by women who wanted to make new friends in the run-up to …

Gmail users get full, always-on HTTPS

Google has made good on its word and has introduced default encryption for all Gmail users. “Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you …

Week in review: NSA records a country’s phone calls, SSL innovations, and (IN)SECURE Magazine special issue

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, reviews, videos, interviews, and articles: US announces transition of oversight over …

NSA targets sys admins to breach computer networks

A newly analyzed document from Edward Snowden’s trove show that the NSA collects personal and account information on system administrators and uses it to compromise …

Bitcoin software update fixes transaction ID malleability bugs

Bitcoin Core – as the Bitcoin infrastructure software has been renamed to in order to avoid confusion with the the Bitcoin network – has been updated to make, …

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