http://www.net-security.org/secworld_main.php Help Net Security - your homepage for all the information security news en-us Copyright since 1998 by HNS staff Sat, 25 May 2013 12:15:02 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14958 Ipanema Technologies and Easynet Global Services unveiled the results of Killer Apps 2013, a major study into the performance of networked applications. Networking budgets are back on the rise: ... Fri, 24 May 2013 10:05:29 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14957 As a fine example of proactive security, Google has announced that it will be upgrading its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys by the end of 2013. "We will begin switching to the new 2048-bit certif... Fri, 24 May 2013 05:54:02 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14956 A Hanover Research survey of 131 information security professionals revealed key differences between the way executive and non-executive IT professionals communicate with senior leadership. Key s... Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:06 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14955 Phishing emails claiming to come from "Facebook Security" are once again hitting users' inboxes, and this time they are aiming for the big fish: pages that are likely to have more followers than a ran... Fri, 24 May 2013 04:44:03 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14954 Tavis Ormandy - the Google researcher known for discovering a slew of Windows, Java and Flash Player vulnerabilities and zero-days and his combative attitude regarding the "responsible disclosure" pol... Thu, 23 May 2013 11:12:31 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14953 U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees have begun receiving notifications about a vulnerability that has inadvertently made their personal information potentially accessible to unauthorized pa... Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:39 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14952 Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of t... Thu, 23 May 2013 07:51:04 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14951 Following a slew of high-profile compromises of accounts belonging to media outlets such as AP and satirical news site The Onion, Twitter has finally implemented two-factor authentication to help prev... Thu, 23 May 2013 06:18:51 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14950 The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their claim that it did has raised... Thu, 23 May 2013 03:10:32 -0400 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=14949 Drawing from responses from more than 100 utilities across America, a new report shows that the nation’s electric grid remains highly vulnerable to attacks from Iran and North Korea, or other threats ... Thu, 23 May 2013 03:06:06 -0400