Oversight Board Calls NSA Metadata Collection Illegal

Another independent review board investigating the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records metadata has come down hard on the program, calling it illegal, recommending the government end the program, and questioning its effectiveness in ferreting out terrorists. The Privacy and Civ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC is an open- source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BO...

Discuz! X2.5 api.php 信息泄露漏洞

Discuz!是国内一套通用的社区论坛软件系统。 Discuz! X2.5 api.php文件中由于arraykeyexists中的第一个参数只能为整数或者字符串，当?mod=ks时，$mod类型为array，从而导致arraykeyexists产生错误信息。 0 Discuz! X2.5...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...

NSA Director to Retain Cyber Command Role

Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: moodle-2.4.7-1.fc19

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: moodle-2.3.10-1.fc18

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations

The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...

Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

Fedora Update for community-mysql FEDORA-2013-19654

Check for the Version of community-mysql OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for community-mysql FEDORA-2013-19654 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif...

Fedora Update for community-mysql FEDORA-2013-19654

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

2013 PCI SSC European Community Meeting Wrap-Up

Matt Getzleman - PCI Practice Director, Dan Fritsche - Director, Solution Validation, Andrew Barratt - Managing Director UK, and Brian Pennington - Regional Sales Director, discuss the recent PCI SSC Community Meeting in Nice, France...

Fedora 19 : community-mysql-5.5.34-1.fc19 (2013-19654)

Update to MySQL 5.5.34, for various fixes described at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.5/en/news-5-5-34.html Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and form...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating 3rd Anniversary

The World's First Dedicated Hacking and Cyber Security News platform - 'The Hacker News' is celebrating its 3rd Anniversary today. When we began our journey 5 years back as a Small Local Community of few Hackers and Researchers, we had the dream of providing the Hacking Community with World's fir...

HTTPS, SSL Minimal Security, Privacy Standard for Email

Yahoo is being second-guessed more today than a mediocre baseball manager. Two days after announcing it would finally turn SSL on by default for its email users starting in January, the company is getting a halfhearted pat on the back from the security industry, which can’t help but ask: “What to...

Google to Pay Rewards For Patches to Open Source Projects

Google, one of the first companies to offer a significant bug bounty program, is extending its rewards to researchers and developers who contribute patches to a variety of open source projects and have an effect on the security of the project. The new rewards will range from $500 to $3,133.70, an...

[PoshSec Framework v0.2] Graphical Interface for Powershell scripts

The PoshSec Framework is a tool that is designed to provide a graphical interface for powershell scripts, functions, modules, and cmdlets. It allows the community to write scripts that can interact with the interface by providing alerts, and output directly from their powershell scripts. This...

Experts Petition NSA Review Board to Include Technologist

A long list of influential security, privacy and technology experts, largely from academic circles, has petitioned the NSA review board to include a technologist among its ranks. The board, established on Aug. 12 by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper upon the orders of the...

NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden - titled 'Tor Stinks' in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser. The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor...

Yahoo Revamps Bug Bounty Vulnerability Rewards Program

Yahoo has promised to put the finishing touches on a new vulnerability reporting and rewards policy by Halloween after finding itself in the throes of a mini scandal this week over two $12.50 Yahoo company store discount codes handed out to one researcher in thanks for turning in a pair of...