White House Creates Cyber Governance Unit Within OMB

With the framework explained for a number of government cybersecurity-related initiatives, now it’s time to talk money. The White House anted up strong in 2015 with proposals for a new data breach notification standard, as well as plans to facilitate information-sharing between the public and...

Affordable Care Act Phishing Campaign

US-CERT is aware of a phishing campaign purporting to come from a U.S. Federal Government Agency. The phishing emails reference the Affordable Care Act in the subject and claim to direct users to health coverage information, but instead direct them to sites which attempt to elicit private...

Indian Government blocks 32 Sites, including GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur and Vimeo

China is known as the nation of 'global internet censorship', and the country proved it many times, in fact when recently it blocked the access to Gmail from the country. Now, it seems that its northern neighbouring country, India doesn't want to get left behind. On Wednesday, the Indian Computer...

FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new...

FTC Shutters $120 Million Tech Support, Bogus Software Scam

Earlier this week a federal court in Florida issued a temporary restraining order shutting down a series of organizations in the business of peddling fake software and nonexistent tech support services, temporarily freezing the assets of those companies’ and placing them under the control of a...

Lame Duck Senate to Vote on NSA Reforming USA FREEDOM Act

The United States Senate will move to vote on the USA FREEDOM Act before the current congressional session closes at the end of the year, a move that pleases digital rights groups. In its current form, the bill would ban the bulk collection of Americans’ private records while granting the...

AOL Releases Transparency Report Lobbies for USA FREEDOM Act

Noting that Saturday was the 13th anniversary of the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Web giant AOL this week released its latest transparency report, detailing estimations of how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA orders and National Security Letters NSLs it’s received in the las...

CVE-2014-7650

The JJA- Juvenile Justice Act 1986 aka com.felix.jja application 1.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Design/Logic Flaw

The JJA- Juvenile Justice Act 1986 aka com.felix.jja application 1.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7650

The CVE-2014-7650 entry concerns the Android 1.0 JJA app (com.felix.jja), which does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. Root cause: lack of certificate validation enabling MITM-style spoofing of servers and potential exposure of sensitive data. Affected component is the app’s SSL/TLS...

CVE-2014-7650

The JJA- Juvenile Justice Act 1986 aka com.felix.jja application 1.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7650: Undefined Security Weakness

The JJA- Juvenile Justice Act 1986 aka com.felix.jja application 1.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Obamacare Marketplaces Could Improve Information Security

The health insurance marketplaces instituted by the Affordable Care Act and through which tens of millions of Americans have signed up for medical coverage, aren’t doing a bad job of securing sensitive personal information but they could certainly be doing a better job, according a new analysis. ...

Documents in Long-Running Yahoo FISC Challenge Case Published

During a long-running secret dispute between Yahoo and government officials over the constitutionality of orders from the federal government to turn over data belonging to Yahoo users, the company was facing fines of $250,000 for refusing to comply with the order. The revelation is contained in a...

Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government

The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed ...

Legal Line Between Security Research, Cybercrime Murky

LAS VEGAS — In his keynote address at Black Hat Wednesday, Dan Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel and a respected security luminary noted that the industry has never been closer to the forefront of corporate and government policy decision making. Despite this, security research remains a dangerous busine...

Hurray! Unlocking Your Cell Phone is Officially Legal Again

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that aims to make it legal for consumers to “unlock” their cell phones in order to change their cell phone service providers without paying for a new phone. The bill is known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which...

Leahy Introduces Bill to End Bulk Call Record Collection

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced an updated, tougher version of the USA FREEDOM Act that would end the bulk collection of data under Section 215 of FISA and also would require the appointment of a panel of special legal advocates who would represent the interests of individual privacy and civil...

DHS Releases Hundreds of Documents on Wrong Project Aurora

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request for information about the Operation Aurora attack on Google and other organizations in 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of pages of documents related not to that attack campaign, but to the Aurora project run at Idaho...

CVE-2014-4596: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in js/button-snapapp.php in the SnapApp plugin 1.5 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 msg or 2 act parameter...