Security

Microsoft’s standing to sue over secret US data requests in question

The company has objected in a lawsuit to unreasonable US government requests for customer data

Assange seeks to discuss his US extradition with the feds

Assange offered to be extradited to the US if President Obama granted clemency to WikiLeaks source Manning

Air Force goes after cyber deception technology

Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) enlists security vendor Galois to develop a cyber deception system

Encrypted email service ProtonMail is now accessible over Tor

The ProtonMail team has set up a Tor hidden service to foil potential censorship attempts

Secdo automates alert investigation with preemptive incident response  

The company says its platform cuts incident response by correlating alerts with endpoint forensic data, revealing the attack chain, root cause and damage assessment

Ransomware takes a nasty turn

Attackers start wiping data from CouchDB and Hadoop databases

After MongoDB and Elasticsearch, attackers are looking for new database storage systems to attack

Is antivirus getting worse?

Anti-virus software is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats

CIA updates rules for collecting and retaining info on US people

Certain sensitive data will have to be destroyed within five years

Mac malware is found targeting biomedical research

The malware, which Apple calls Fruitfly, can also run on Linux