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(Image © Steve Fareham (cc-by-sa/2.0)) Over the years the OWASP top 10 has been a key guide for directing application developers to the things they should worry about from a security perspective. The same types of issues seem to occur again and again with alarming regularity. Read Full Story

Nowadays it's very common for car manufacturers to develop mobile applications that allow you to control several aspects of your vehicle. The level of control that these apps give you is diverse. From the simple function of unlocking the car to the much more complicated action of summoning it to your location. Read Full Story

On Friday, 21 October 2016, multiple waves of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks shut down major internet services across the United States and Europe. The attacking botnet army consisted mainly of printers, IP cameras, residential gateways, and baby monitors infected with Mirai malware. Mirai targets IoT devices, and though each individual IoT device was not very powerful, taken together these devices did significant damage. For many mainstream internet users, the need for strong IoT security became painfully obvious. Read Full Story

The well-respected Coach brand stands for authenticity, innovation, and relevance. They are a luxury brand, so you might be a bit surprised to find in mid-October that the Coach mobile app in the iTunes App Store was offering an extra 20 percent off bags, shoes and accessories. Act fast but watch out, because Coach doesn't really have an iPhone app! Read Full Story

The attack on the website of Brian Krebs and the release of the Mirai malware source code demonstrates the challenges that face the anti-bot world. At its peak, the Krebs on Security DDoS attack was generating 620Gbps of traffic, mostly from IoT devices. With the ever increasing number of internet connected devices, and their current security shortcomings, it should come as little surprise that the scale of DDoS attacks is increasing. Read Full Story

A massive success, a staggered worldwide release, ravening hordes of eager adults (and children) with an obsessive urge to catch ’em all. I am of course talking about Pokémon GO from Niantic. Read Full Story