Video: Wikileaks, Data Security and the SMB

Threatpost editor Paul Roberts discusses issues that matter to small businesses including the impact of the recent Wikileaks debacle and the need for improved endpoint security, patch management and data protection on Pulse Network’s ITEC This Week with hosts Tyler Pyburn and Bill Sell...

HP Data Protector Manager MMD Service Stack Buffer Overflow

Added: 12/10/2010 BID: 45128 Background HP Data Protector is a backup solution for enterprise and distributed environments. The Data Protector environment consists of a Cell Manager, backup agents, and backup device servers. The Cell Manager is the central point from which backup agents and devic...

7) Reputation matters – check it!

When you walk into a doctor’s office, you like to see those frames hanging, right? The degrees from the prestigious medical school and certificates of completion from a reputable hospital residency program? The license from your state’s Board of Registration in Medicine, maybe? They don’t mean yo...

EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010: November 10, 2010

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Firm Finds Gaping Holes in Mobile Payments Applications

eBay’s PayPal online payment division is rushing a software patch to users of its iPhone mobile payments application to plug a hole that leaves users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle and phishing attacks, but the firm that found that hole said transaction security is just one problem facing the...

UK: Google Street View Data Snarfing Broke the Law

Search giant Google violated the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act by gobbling up personal data, in addition to images and GPS data, with its roving Street View autos. According to a report by the BBC, the UK’s Information Commissioner ruled there was a “significant breach” of the country’s da...

National Science Foundation Funds Purdue Data-Anonymization Project

A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help the...

Web Server Harvested Email Addresses

Nessus harvested HREF mailto: links and extracted email addresses by crawling the remote web server. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid49705; scriptversion"1.7"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2018/05/24 13:59:31"; scriptnameenglish:"Web Server Harvested Email...

Attacks On MPAA's UK Law Firm Lead to Data Leaks, Lawsuit

A UK Law firm that has aggressively pursued cases against illegal file sharing on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA and Recording Industry Association of America RIAA now finds itself in the cross hairs of both hackers and and privacy activists. The firm was the subject of...

NSA Director Says U.S. Has a Duty to Secure the Internet

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The United States has a responsibility to take a leadership role in securing the Internet against both internal and external attackers, a duty that the federal government takes very seriously, the country’s top military cybersecurity official said Tuesday. However, Gen. Keith...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: pam_mount-2.5-1.fc13

This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as semi-diskless stations where many users can logon. The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: pam_mount-2.5-1.fc12

This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as semi-diskless stations where many users can logon. The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code ...

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine RPC Opcode 207 Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-0169)

Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operations including Backup and Restore, Data Migration, and Threat Management. There exists a...

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine Service Buffer Overflow

Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operations including Backup and Restore, Data Migration and Threat Management. There exists a...

Researchers Release Capsicum, New Sandbox Framework

As applications have become more and more complex in recent years and Web browsers have evolved into operating systems unto themselves, the task of securing desktop environments has become increasingly difficult. And while there’s been quite a bit of innovation on Windows security, advances in Un...

CA XOsoft Multiple Products xosoapapi.asmx Buffer Overflow (CVE-2010-1223)

CA ARCserve Backup products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operations including backup and restore, data migration, and threat management. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been...

Security Programs Focusing Too Much on Compliance, Study Finds

Enterprises are spending huge amounts of money on compliance programs related to PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other regulations, but those funds may be misdirected in light of the priorities of most information security programs, a new study has found. A paper by Forrester Research, commissioned by Microso...

Using Live Data In Development Is Risky

Those charged with the care and feeding of database information stores, beware: A new statistic tucked into a comprehensive study of financial services firms’ data protection policies shows that even at the most security-aware organizations, application developers still use live data in their...

Taher Elgamal on Encryption, SSL, The Cloud

In this wide ranging interview, cryptographer, Taher Elgamal, chief security officer of Axway Inc. and initial driving force behind SSL, explains how applications may be better adapted to defend against attacks and how cloud computing may alter data protection and authentication. Read the full...