Tag Archives: security and privacy

CIA Firmware Hacked Popular Wireless Routers Since 2007

Among the companies whose wireless routers have reportedly been compromised are Motorola, Linksys, Dell, Netgear, US Robotics, Belkin, Asus, Buffalo, DLink and Senao. Continue reading

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XSS Just One Part of Broad Application Threat Landscape: Report

The State of In-Production Application Security report, drawn from analysis of more than 30 major enterprise applications in production, shows that over 40 percent of organizations experience account takeover attacks. Continue reading

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How the Russian Internet Censor Banned Itself

Censoring the internet is as difficult as it is futile, and Russian internet users have convincingly demonstrated this to the government this month by turning its website-blocking system against itself. Continue reading

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HPE’s Gen10 Servers Will Have Security Drilled into Silicon

While the release of a new server is generally not very interesting in this age of commodity hardware, this one is a bit more notable as it has some interesting security features built into the hardware. Continue reading

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Hosting Firm Restores Servers After Ex-Employee Deletes Everything

A Dutch hosting provider had to restore servers over the weekend after an ex-administrator “deleted all customer data and wiped most servers.” Continue reading

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