Antivirus is an interesting topic right now. Threats are getting faster and more severe. Endpoint protection can catch the "standard" viruses and malware but are missing the latest and most damaging threats. Some consider antivirus as a necessary evil while others hold out hope for a better product being more effective. If you're shopping around for an antivirus solution, this … [Read more...]
EFF, Mozilla and others form CA to make TLS Everywhere for free
Through the Internet Security Research Group, Mozilla Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, Inc., and University of Michigan researchers are looking to create a new free certificate authority. This CA has the goal of allowing TLS-protected communication, the successor to SSL, a certificate to be installed on a server … [Read more...]
The results of Mobile Pwn2Own 2014
The third annual Mobile Pwn2Own was held in Tokyo at the PacSec conference. HP with Google Android security team and Blackberry sponsoring are offering cash and prizes totaling over $425,000 to security researchers able to compromise the mobile devices. The payout breakdown provides for different reward levels depending on which vector was used to hack it. Mobile Web Browser … [Read more...]
BrowserStack hacked over the weekend
BrowserStack is a cloud service to allow developers to test their web applications across a variety of desktop and mobile browsers. Over the weekend, customers of the service were sent an email claiming that the site was shutting down. The email also disclosed a variety of bad security practices, which one would believe related to the site compromise. The email is below. Dear … [Read more...]
Avast updates free Windows and Mac clients to 2015
Avast has pushed out an update for the free antivirus clients, updating them to a 2015 version of the popular antivirus. The install comes bundled with Dropbox as bloatware but you can uncheck a box so it doesn't get installed at the end of the setup. Regarding new features in 2015, Avast describes SecureDNS (premium only), HTTPS scanning, Smart Scan, and Home Network … [Read more...]