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...

VMware Service - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== VMware Service - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=420 Release Date: ============= 2012-04-13 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 420...

Disaster Recovery Disaster: Drill Gone Wrong Leads To Loss Of Data On 800K

Call it a disaster recovery drill disaster. The loss of four magnetic tape cartridges containing data on 800,000 California residents was the unfortunate result of an IBM-managed disaster recovery exercise gone wrong, said Christine Lally, Assistant Secretary, Legislation & Communications for the...

PayPal Revises Privacy Policy, User Agreement Policy

PayPal announced that it is changing both its privacy and user agreement policies, adding tweaks to its customer identification program and the way it collects and stores its customers’ personal information. The changes will take effect on April 1. Under the new policy, Paypal may collect...

Apple, Google and Others Agree to Provide Privacy Policy Option for Mobile Developers

This has turned out to be an interesting week for privacy. Just a few days after the White House laid out is privacy agenda, the California attorney general has announced an agreement with several major mobile platform providers, including Apple and Google, that will have the companies provide...

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced !

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced Facebook today announced open registration for its second annual Hacker Cup, an annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world. Programmers will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance...

Anonymous Leaks Info Following California Police Union Website Hack

The website for California’s Statewide Law Enforcement Association CSLEA union remained offline Tuesday following the announcement of a hack by well-known hacktivist group Anonymous over the holiday weekend. In part of what the group has deemed “pr0j3ct m4hy3m,” project mayhem Anonymous released...

Unlucky: Supermarket Chain Tells Customers That Self-Service Checkout Lanes In 20 Stores Were Outfitted With Card Skimmers

Customers of the Lucky supermarket chain in California were feeling rather unlucky last week, after receiving notice from parent company Save Mart Supermarkets said that self-service checkout lines in 20 of its stores were found to have debit and credit card readers that had been outfitted with...

Anonymous Hacks, Leaks E-mails, Voicemails of California Special Agent

Calling it a form of “electronic civil disobedience,” hacktivist group Anonymous took aim at a special agent from the California Department of Justice on Friday. The group spilled 38,000 e-mails containing “computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing...

FBI To Probe California University Hack That Changed Student's Grades

More than 60 current and former students at Santa Clara University had their academic records hacked into and grades changed – for the better, according to a letter posted to the school’s site on Monday by university president Michael Engh. The note claims that there was unauthorized access to th...

DHS Names Weatherford as Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity

Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Mark Weatherford today as the National Protection and Programs Directorate’s NPPD new Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, according to a press release on the DHS’ site. The role was created by the Directorate in...

Hosting Provider InMotion Hacked, Thousands of Sites Affected

InMotion, a large hosting provider based in California, was compromised in recent days and the attackers were able to replace the index files of thousands of sites, defacing them and in some cases making it difficult for site owners to recover and reload their sites. The attack occurred on Sunday...

FBI Arrests two Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers

FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana. The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, According to Fox news. The...

California Approves Data Security Rules for Smart Meters

The state of California has approved new rules to protect the data stored on so-called “smart meters,” in an effort to protect customer consumption data as household utilities are wired and connected to an IP-enabled “smart grid.” The California Public Utilities Commission CPUC, which regulates...

10 year old girl hacker CyFi reveal her first zero-day in Game at #DefCon 19

10 year old girl hacker CyFi reveal her first zero-day in Game at DefCon 19 Another awesome day at DefCon 19 . Today a 10 year old Girl hacker - pseudonym CyFi revealed her zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices that independent researchers have confirmed as a new class of...

TRUSTe Website - Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== TRUSTe Website - Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability Release Date: ============= 2011-07-18 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 188 Product & Service Introduction: =============================== TRUSTe is a company based in San...

TRUSTe Website - Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== TRUSTe Website - Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability Release Date: ============= 2011-07-18 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 188 Product & Service Introduction: =============================== TRUSTe is a company based in San...

Sun.com (Oracle Sun Microsystems) vulnerable to SQL Injection

Sun.com Oracle Sun Microsystems vulnerable to SQL Injection Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company selling computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. Prior to the acquistition by Oracle its headquarters were in Santa...

Yahoo! Announces Hack U™ Spring 2011 Series !

Yahoo! is proud to announce the Hack U™ Spring 2011 calendar of events. Join Yahoo! web experts for a week of learning, hacking and fun! You'll hear interesting tech talks, hacking tips and lessons, and get hands-on coding workshops where you'll work with cutting-edge technology. The week's event...

Sonic.net Selected by Google to Operate Stanford Fiber Network !

Sonic.net today announced it has been selected to operate and support the trial fiber-to-the-home network Google is building at Stanford University. This experimental project will test new fiber construction and operation methods, while delivering full gigabit speeds to approximately 850 faculty...