By Chris Hadnagy For the past few months, I’ve brought you articles on launching your career as a social engineer, the psychology and history behind hacking humans and even some scams you can pull on your clients for their own good. As wonderful as it is to talk about the…
Expert advocates for more effective pen tests, less complex security
A security expert warns organizations against buying the latest and greatest security technology and advocates for more effective pen testing at InfoSec World Conference and Expo 2012. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
German criminal agency tests surveillance tech
Germany’s federal criminal agency, the BKA, is testing at least one commercial spyware program, FinSpy, delivered through the German subsidiary of Britain’s Gamma International. FinSpy was exposed last year as being a surveillance application that was used in Mubarak’s Egypt. It infects computers by fooling targets into installing a fake update for iTunes…
The Case of a Scottish Hacker Tests the British-American Extradition Pac
Gary McKinnon attends a press conference in London, on January 15, 2009. (Photo: Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images) The following is a guest post from London by TIME writer-reporter Megan Gibson. Sometimes the bleakest of battles can find some unexpected support. In 2002, a Scottish man living in…
Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests
Many free-of-charge antivirus products fail to protect Android smartphone against malware effectively, leaving users with a false sense of security as a result. Tests by antivirus testing lab AV-Test.org revealed that the best freebie Android anti-virus scanner, Zoner Antivirus, caught 32 per cent of 160 recent Android threats. The other…
Mozilla rubbishes Microsoft web browser security tests
Mozilla has responded to Microsoft’s new browser security test with jabs against Internet Explorer. Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a website that rates the security of IE, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. The site, yourbrowsermatters.org, uses the agent string of those browsers to call up a score between 0 and…
NSS Labs Performs International Tests of Web Browsers Against Socially Engineered Malware
CARLSBAD, CA–(Marketwire – Aug 15, 2011) – NSS Labs, Inc., the leading independent security testing organization, today announced the release of its latest Web Browser Security Comparative Test Reports against Socially-Engineered Malware for the third quarter of 2011. Two tests were carried out; one global test and one Asia-Pacific specific…