Stuart Burns If the Ashley Madison saga has taught us one thing well, many things, but one main thing it was never, ever, ever use a work email…
Day: September 8, 2015
Inside threats enable vast majority of cybercrimes
By Stuart Poole-Robb No less an authority than colorful cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee firmly believes that the now infamous hack of the US-based Ashley Madison sex-cheating website was an inside…
Kaspersky and FireEye Rush to Fix Flaws
Phil Muncaster Two major security vendors are working quickly to fix problems in their products after security researchers publicly disclosed vulnerabilities over the past few days. Google researcher, Tavis Ormandy, tweeted right…
Hackers Eschew Malware to Keep Attacks Hidden
Phil Muncaster Over half of the targeted threats investigated by Dell SecureWorks over the past year have been carried out not with backdoor malware but compromised credentials and the victim…
Credentials stored in Ashley Madison's source code might have helped attackers
Credentials stored in Ashley Madison’s source code might have helped attackers The company’s developers were careless with sensitive credentials and secret keys, a security consultant found. By Lucian Constantin If…