Verizon Settles with FCC for $1.25 Million Over Tethering Block

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Communications Commission ended a 10-month investigation of Verizon Wireless with a $1.25 million settlement for restricting Android customer access to “tethering” software used to relay Internet signals to other devices. The federal probe was launched after...

Scientific Linux Security Update : squid on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way Squid processed certain external ACL helper HTTP header fields that contained a delimiter that was not a comma. A remote attacker could issue a crafted request to the Squid server, causing excessive CPU use up to 100%. CVE-2009-2855 Note: The CVE-2009-2855 issue only...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: firefox-14.0.1-1.fc17

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

SCAP Windows Compliance Checks

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SCAP Linux Compliance Checks

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Senator Seeks to Strengthen SEC-Required Cybercrime Reporting

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller wants to strengthen SEC legislation that requires publicly traded companies disclose significant digital security breaches, mainly because most aren’t. The chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week added a provision to cybersecurity...

Watchdog Says Government Failing To Enforce HIPAA Privacy Protections

The Government Accountability Office GAO is warning that the U.S. government hasn’t lived up to promises to protect the privacy of Medicare patients who use the federal government’s Prescription Drug Benefit and not following through on promises to audit organizations that store patient health...

VMware releases PCI Solution Guide and it has good news for compliance-oriented buyers

This month VMware release an important document, the VMware Solution Guide for Payment Card Industry PCI. Its significant because it is the first document of its kind to map the PCI requirements - including those authored by the PCI SSCs Virtualization SIG - to a commercially-available stack of...

Global Payments Hack May Have Exposed Information On Individuals, Also

Payment processor Global Payments acknowledged Tuesday that a breach at the company announced in early March may have affected individual consumers, as well as merchants. In an update to its 2012infosecurityupdate.com site, the Atlanta-based company wrote that an ongoing investigation “revealed...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: firefox-13.0-1.fc16

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: firefox-13.0-1.fc17

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Coalfire Acquires Digital Resources Group in California

We have reached a new milestone at Coalfire and have announced the recent acquisition of privately held Digital Resources Group DRG in Redwood City, California. We are excited about our latest venture as it consolidates our leadership position within the IT Governance Risk and Compliance IT GRC...

Carrier IQ Hires a Chief Privacy Officer

Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2012-6610

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2012-6610 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

FISMA vs FedRAMP: Compliance requirement differences

Organizations that work with, or want to work with, government agencies must manage to government compliance regulations. Almost everyone is familiar with the FISMA compliance standards, but with the announcement of FedRAMP, which provides a structure to manage compliance requirements for "a clou...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: firefox-12.0-1.fc15

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: firefox-12.0-1.fc17

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: firefox-12.0-1.fc16

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Surprises Ahead for Some Level 2 Merchants

The PCI DSS has been around for years, and most PCI "pros" are familiar with the processes needed to validate compliance. However, insiders often forget that small changes to the guidelines can have a big impact on merchants. One such change is upon us: MasterCards new validation guidelines for...

Utah Data Breach of 181,000 Records Blamed on Configuration Error

Nearly 200,000 people who receive benefits from the Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Plan in Utah have had their personal information–including Social Security numbers in some cases–compromised as part of an intrusion on the network at the Utah Department of Technology Services. The 181,000...