Microsoft plans to retire support for TLS certificates signed by the SHA1 hashing algorithm in the next four months, an acceleration brought on by new research showing it was even ... More
Tag Archives: cyber security
Microsoft to Retire Support for SHA1 Certificates in the Next 4 Months (ARS Technica)
Aging and Bloated OpenSSL is Purged of Two High-Severity Bugs (ARS Technica)
Maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic library have patched high-severity holes that could make it possible for attackers to decrypt login credentials or execute malicious code o... More
Criminals Peddling Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware (Threat Post)
It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as... More
Top U.S. Computer Science Undergrad Programs Flunk Cybersecurity (Forbes)
A new study out from CloudPassage — a cloud security firm based in San Francisco — concludes that the American higher-education system is failing at preparing students for care... More
Report: Google Play Infested with Cash-Stealing Web Apps (The Register)
Security researcher Joshua Shilko says phishing apps targeting some of the world's biggest payment services have slipped past screening and landed on Google Play. Shilko says he's... More
Irremovable Data-Stealing Android Malware Poses as Google Chrome Update (ZD Net)
A banking and personal information stealing mobile malware posing as a Google Chrome update for Android, and which can't be removed from the infected device, has been spotted in th... More
Check Your Spotify Account: Users Report Unusual Activity After Credentials Posted Online (Financial Post)
If you use the popular music streaming service Spotify, there is a chance you may be vulnerable after a report has surfaced that the emails, usernames, passwords and other details ... More
Firefox: Mozilla Patches Critical Flaws that let Attackers Execute Malicious Code (ZD Net)
Mozilla has released Firefox 46 and patched several memory bugs that could let an attacker take control of a system. The new version of Firefox includes fixes for 10 security issu... More
Hackers Steal Millions of Minecraft Passwords (BBC)
Hackers have stolen login data for more than seven million members of the Minecraft site Lifeboat. Lifeboat lets members run servers for customised, multiplayer maps for the smart... More
Office 365 Vulnerability Exposed any Federated Account (ThreatPost)
A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles federated identities via SAML put an attacker in position to have access to any account and data, including email mes... More