Network Security

Flaw in Realtek SDK for wireless chipsets exposes routers to hacking

Second HTTPS snooping flaw breaks security for thousands of iOS apps

Practical advice from an information security incident response consultant

Jeff Schmidt, founder and CEO of JAS Global Advisors, provides lessons learned from more than a dozen years doing incident response

Boards are on high alert over security threats

Fear of cyberattacks has corporate directors on edge. CIOs must paint a realistic view of the company's security posture and steer the conversation toward managing business risk.

With ransomware on the rise, cryptographers take it personally

RSA: Fight attackers by making software revisions so quickly, exploits could be evaded

Dan Geer: Randomizing code at runtime could leave attackers with no time to find vulnerabilities

Qualys devises a virtual patch to protect against vulnerabilities

Crypto gurus: The government’s key escrow plan won’t work

Congress moves forward on cyberthreat sharing bill despite privacy concerns

Poor WordPress documentation trips developers, yields plug-ins with XSS flaw