Borepatch

Not exactly a Security Smorgasbord post, but interesting and important stuff. Lawrence has an post about a new sort of phishing scam preten...

Here's a roundup of interesting Internet Security news. Costco discloses credit card skimmer breach .   A "skimmer" is a devic...

Here's a collection of interesting computer security news from the last month or so. When there's never any good news, some good new...

Google report: Government Geofence warrants up ten times in the last year : POLICE AROUND THE  country have drastically increased their use ...

Report: Direct patient safety risk posed by infusion pump vulnerability exploit A group of five vulnerabilities in the B. Braun Infusomat Sp...

This Security Smorgasbord now has more snark! Congress catches up to Borepatch from 2009 , holds hearings on Power Grid security : The lack ...

Insurance Industry consortium grappling with ransomeware payments : Both are signs of the cyber insurance world trying to wrap its arms aro...

Here's a collection of security news I found interesting (and horrifying). US nuclear weapon bunker security secrets spill from online f...

I really need to get back into doing these.  So here you go. RIP, FTP Mozilla is removing support for downloading files from FTP links .  Al...

 I used to do these regularly but have gotten lazy in my dotage.  Ah well, maybe we can reboot the series. Government actually does somethin...

Boy, it's been long time since I've done one of these. Protecting yourself from phishing attacks in email .  "Phishing" ...

Paypal's 2-factor authentication is entirely broken : Researchers at DUO Security claim to have found a way of bypassing a two factor...

The NSA has weaponized the Internet : According to revelations about the QUANTUM program, the NSA can “shoot” (their words) an exploit ...

Lots of Windowsy goodness in this week's Patch Tuesday , including a fix that covers all versions of Windows.  That's right, somethi...

Microsoft asks Is everything we know about passwords wrong? Interesting: Federal Reserve Regulation E guarantees that US con- sumers a...

Money draws talent, and security is no exception.  Three examples show that the attackers are doing much more surgical targeting of victims....

If you use LinkedIn, change your password now : A Russian hacker says he has stolen 6,458,020 encrypted passwords and posted them online (...

Malware in Macland More Mac OS X trojan activity : Last week, Apple released two urgent updates to Mac OS X to: 1. Remove the Flashback...

TSA Follies, Act The First: A FBI Counter-Terrorism Special Agent says that the TSA is "tilting at windmills" : TSA has never,...