Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET)

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET The Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET is a Department of Homeland Security DHS product that assists organizations in protecting their key national cyber assets. It was developed under the direction of the DHS National...

Singapore will setup National Cyber Security Centre

Singapore will setup National Cyber Security Centre Singapore has said it will boost its national capability to counter cyber security threats through the setting up of a 'National Cyber Security Centre ' in the coming months. The Centre, which will be headed by the Singapore Infocomm Technology...

Singapore will setup National Cyber Security Centre

Singapore will setup National Cyber Security Centre Singapore has said it will boost its national capability to counter cyber security threats through the setting up of a 'National Cyber Security Centre' in the coming months. The Centre, which will be headed by the Singapore Infocomm Technology...

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011 Ready for a little game of capture the flag? What if you weren't running around a field like a crazy person trying to grab a flag out of someone's belt, but instead were navigating around a network overcoming technical challenges to find marker...

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at CSAW CTF 2011 Ready for a little game of capture the flag? What if you weren't running around a field like a crazy person trying to grab a flag out of someone's belt, but instead were navigating around a network overcoming technical challenges to find marker...

Kazakhstan calls for global cyber security treaty to deter hackers at United Nations

Kazakhstan calls for global cyber security treaty to deter hackers at United Nations Today's security professionals - whether they are black hats, white hats or something in between - all have one thing in common: The knowledge of their craft probably did not come from a book or a classroom...

Massachusetts Attorney General, Victim of an iTunes Scam, Says She'll Demand Answers

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple’s popular online music store. In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley said she...

Massachusetts Inaugurates New Cyber Security Center

Hundreds of business leaders and academics joined Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to launch the state’s Advanced Cyber Security Center ACSC, one of the first of its kind in the nation. Speaking at the local headquarters of the MITRE Corporation, Patrick an...

FOX Sports website database hacked and leaked by Shad0w

FOX Sports website database hacked and leaked by Shad0w One of the Biggest Fox Sports website with world rank 678 and millions of Readers/Day got hacked. Hacker named "Shad0w" release SQL injection Vulnerability on one of the sub domain of Fox Sports and exploit it to extract the database. Leaked...

Comodohacker is 21 year old patriotic Iranian Hacker

Comodohacker is 21 year old patriotic Iranian Hacker The New York Times got in touch with Comodohacker, who says he's a 21-year-old Iranian student, and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping breach of Gmail this summer. By sniping security certificates from a Dutch company — essentially...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader PCX Processing Heap Overflow Vulnerability

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader PCX Processing Heap Overflow Vulnerability Website : http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the global standards for electronic document...

NATO Looks to Team With India To Fight Cybercrime

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO is looking to enlist the help of India when it comes to contending with cyber threats from China, according to a recent report. According to a piece in the Economic Times, NATO hopes to strengthen its ties with the Southeast Asia republic, citing its...

NBC News Twitter account hacked & post fake news of 9/11

NBC News Twitter account hacked & post fake news of 9/11 Hackers have broken into the Twitter account of NBC News and posted messages claiming that there has been a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York. Coming two days before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the prank by a group...

Did The September 11th Attacks Blind Us To A Digital Pearl Harbor?

It was December 8, 2000 – the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Richard Clarke, a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council, was addressing attendees at SafeNet 2000, a conference sponsored by Microsoft Corp. that brought together computer security experts from around the...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games...

Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Named Sony CISO

Former Department of Homeland Security cyber-security chief Philip Reitinger has been named as the new executive vice president and Chief Information Security Officer of Sony Corporation. In his new position, Reitinger will be in charge of global information security and privacy at the electronic...

Researcher Will Demo Crippling Siemens Attack Using Metasploit

For years, there’s been an argument that the sophistication of industrial control systems is enough to keep script kiddies – or low-skilled hackers – away. Well, so much for that. Researcher Ralph Langer says that he will use a presentation at an upcoming security conference in Washington D.C. to...

Ten Reasons The Diginotar Breach Will Be Bigger Than Stuxnet

by Roel Schouwenberg Editor’s note: This story was reposted from Securelist.com. In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to Saturday night. He announced the Dutch government was revoking trust in Diginotar. Diginotar...

Theregister.co.uk , Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic got hacked by Turkguvenligi

Theregister.co.uk , Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic got hacked by Turkguvenligi The Register One of the Biggest British technology news and opinion website got hacked by Turkguvenligi . Not only this Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, Ups.com , betfair.com also got...