On Thursday, Google’s Safe Browsing service began warning visitors to php.net that the website was discovered serving malware. Initially, most people and PHP maintainers thought that it was a false positive
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To developers, advertising frameworks may just be another way to make money from their free application, but in at least one case–dubbed “Vulna” by security firm FireEye
A US district court has ruled that anyone calling themselves a “hacker” loses their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and property seizures.
Social engineering has for a while now been cyber attackers’ best bet to enter systems and compromise accounts when actual hacking doesn’t work, or when they simply don’t want to waste much time getting in.
In response to the news that convicted computer hackers could be recruited to the UK’s cyber defence force if they pass security vetting, Tripwire have made the following comments
A defibrillator fitted to US vice president Dick Cheney had its wireless functions removed in the factory, in order to ensure hackers – or terrorists – could not kill him by attacking the device.
Anti-Virus (AV) software, along with its Firewall side-kick, has been the standard weapon against Internet borne threat for the past two decades. But in a changing threat landscape AV is fast beginning to look past its sell-by date.
I’ve heard the term hacking used for non technical things a few too many times lately. It makes me wonder if perhaps its overuse is making the average person not care about security because they believe it’s a purely technical issue
In this DerbyCon video, John Strand will demonstrate the Active Defense Harbinger Distribution, a DARPA funded, free Active Defense virtual machine.
Rapid7 has acknowledged that it waited too long to take the security actions needed to prevent a pro-Palestine hacking group from taking down two of its websites by sending a fax to the sites’ registrar.
