Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are more frequent today than they’ve ever been, according to the latest report by Verisign. In the final quarter of 2015, DDoS attack... More
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DDoS Attacks: Know Your Enemy (Information Security)
FBI Paid at Least $1.3M for Zero-Day to get into San Bernardino iPhone (ARS Technica)
FBI Director James Comey suggested to a conference in London that his agency paid more than $1.3 million to gray-hat hackers who were able to unlock the iPhone 5C that was used by ... More
Criminals in the Cloud: How Malware-as-a-Service is Becoming Tool of Choice for Crooks (ZD Net)
Everyone is working to a cloud business model now -- even virus writers. Rather than turning a profit just once by selling a security exploit as a one-off, authors of malicious sof... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, April 24, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Apple QuickTime for Window: On April 14, US-CERT advised Microsoft Windows users to remove QuickTime. This followed a report in ars technica that Apple ... More
Zero-Day Exploits More Than Double as Attackers Prevail in Security Arms Race (ARS Technica)
The number of attacks that exploited previously unknown software vulnerabilities more than doubled in 2015 as hackers raced against security defenders to find effective ways to inf... More
Ransomware Alert: Prevent and Mitigate Ransomware Attacks (U.S.-CERT)
In early 2016, destructive ransomware variants such as Locky and Samas were observed infecting computers belonging to individuals and businesses, which included healthcare faciliti... More
Microsoft Sues U.S. Government Over Gag Orders (Naked Security)
To hell with lying back gagged when the Feds come looking for its customers’ data, and to hell with the passive act of putting out warrant canaries to flag when it’s happening:... More
Facebook’s Working on Auto-Tagging us in Videos (Naked Security)
Has anybody ever captured your image as you lunged at them, screaming “STOP THE TAGGING MADNESS!!”? No? Well, maybe you’ll have more reason to lunge now that the madness is ... More
Apple, FBI set to Resume Encryption Fight at House Hearing (CNET)
The encryption battle between Apple and the FBI is moving from the courtroom to Congress next week. Representatives from the tech titan and the federal law enforcement agency are ... More
