Network Security

AT&T hacker Weev released from prison after appeals court overturns conviction

A federal appeals court has ruled that the venue for Auernheimer's prosecution wasn't appropriate

Akamai admits its OpenSSL patch was faulty, reissues keys

Researcher Willem Pinckaers found a hole in Akamai's OpenSSL code tweak, used for a decade, in 15 minutes

Tests confirm Heartbleed bug can expose server’s private key

CloudFlare said its challenge shows how dangerous is the OpenSSL bug

Entrust offer new certificates in wake of Heartbleed

Votiro sanitizes malware-laden files intent on doing you harm

US charges nine with distributing Zeus malware

Two defendants face arraignment in federal court Friday

Don’t overlook URL fetching agents when fixing Heartbleed flaw on servers, researchers say

TLS clients are also vulnerable to Heartbleed memory leaking attacks, including server-side applications that fetch user-supplied URLs

Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160): An overview of the problem and the resources needed to fix it

Website operators will have a hard time dealing with the Heartbleed vulnerability

Patching the vulnerable OpenSSL software is just the first step, security experts say

IRS plays-up identity theft, fraud fight

Prosecutions increase but tidal wave of scammers continues