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.
Sony Pictures LulzSec hacker sentenced

25-year-old LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger (aka “recursion”) has been sentenced to spend one year in prison for his involvement in the Sony Pictures Entertainment …

Research reveals damage that privacy breaches can cause

A global study of consumer attitudes towards company stewardship of personal data conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that data breaches can cause major damage …

Cloud-based email threat protection from Dell

Dell announced SonicWALL Hosted Email Security 2.0, a cloud-based service providing multi-layered email threat protection backed by 24/7 online and phone support. Dell Email …

Unlocking MS Office 2007/2010 documents

Cloud-based password unlocking service Password-Find introduced a new decrypting algorithm that unlocks half of Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint …

Widely used routers easy to hack even by remote attackers

Security researchers from Independent Security Evaluators have tested thirteen widely used small office/home office routers and wireless access points, and have discovered …

Microsoft rolls out optional two-step authentication

Microsoft has announced that it will be upgrading the Microsoft account and that this upgrade will include an optional two-step verification feature. “More than a year …

Encrypted e-mail service from Silent Circle

Silent Circle announced the availability of the company’s new Silent Mail e-mail encryption service. Silent Mail addresses longstanding problems with e-mail encryption: …

Free endpoint backup for small teams

Druva introduced free IT-managed endpoint backup for groups of up to 15 users with a new edition of Druva inSync, its integrated suite of backup, file sharing, data loss …

Beware of fake SourceForge site offering malicious downloads

Cyber crooks have been misusing the reputation of the popular online source code repository SourceForge (sourceforge.net) and gave been pushing out malware from the …

Backdoor Trojan uses “magic code” to contact C&C server

Researchers from security firm Seculert have unearthed a curious piece of backdoor-opening malware. Once the malware gets installed on a computer and run, it first contacts …

IT decision makers mark increase in security-related incidents

More than one-third of surveyed European enterprises (36%) have experienced an increase in the frequency of network and data security-related incidents in the last 18 months, …

Most corporate computers missing critical software updates

87 percent of corporate computers are missing critical software updates that could threaten business security, according to F-Secure data from around 200,000 workstations …

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