EC-Council Launches Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) !

EC-Council Launches Center for Advanced Security Training CAST to Address the Growing Need for Advanced Information Security Knowledge Mar 9, 2011, Albuquerque, NM - According to the report, Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President, released in November 2010 by Center for Strategic and...

Zombies, Baseball and IT Security

How is defending your network and users from sophisticated cyber attacks like fending off a zombie invasion? Funny you should ask! In an interview with Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts, Josh Corman, the Research Director in the Enterprise Security Practice at the 451 Group reprises a 2011 RSA...

Iran Welcomes Hackers Who Work For Islamic Republic !

An official with Iran's Revolutionary Guard has said that Iran welcomes hackers who are willing to work for the Islamic Republic. "Regarding the cyber issue, we welcome the presence of those hackers who are willing to work for the goals of the Islamic Republic with good will and revolutionary...

DHS Needs to Change Rules to Recruit Hackers into U.S. Security Agencies !

Members of the hacker community are leery of working with the government and sharing their skills, if it means navigating through outdated regulations and being viewed as potential security risks. Hackers and other computer experts willing to collaborate with the Department of Homeland Security t...

U.S. Military's Cyber Chief Warns Of Eroding Technical Prowess

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to milita...

Chinese hackers targeted House of Commons !

Chinese hackers not only attacked key federal departments: they also cracked into the computer system of the House of Commons, targeting MPs with large ethnic Chinese constituencies, CTV News has learned. Sources say Canada's secret cyber spy agency -- the Communications Security Establishment --...

RedHat Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk RHSA-2011:0281-01

Check for the Version of java-1.6.0-openjdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk RHSA-2011:0281-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHSA-2011:0281)

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

Secret plan to kill Wikileaks with FUD leaked !

Three security consulting firm with links to intelligence agencies of the United States to cook up to dirty tricks campaign late last year in favor of Wikileaks to destroy its perceived weaknesses, reads the draft published in the organization of information 'which claimed to be from the...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

British govt computers under cyber attacks from hostile states !

British Adopted Secretary William Hague has said that cyberspace is acceptance abyss and adverse intelligence agencies to advance the British government. During a appointment in Munich, Hague not alone talked about how government computers were adulterated by a virus aftermost year, but...

DHS Investing $40 Million for Cybersecurity Research !

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative CNCI are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis DHS will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bure...

London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in...

Infected PC Compromises Pentagon Credit Union

The credit union used by members of the U.S. armed forces and their families has admitted that a laptop infected with malware was used to access a database containing the personal and financial information of customers. The Pentagon Federal Credit Union PenFed issued a statement to the New...

CVE-2010-1679

Directory traversal vulnerability in dpkg-source in dpkg before 1.14.31 and 1.15.x allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in a patch for a source-format 3.0 package...

Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army !

In 2007, when Estonia's government, financial and media computer networks were attacked by unknown Russian hackers following the government's decision of relocating a Soviet war memorial, it must have been hard to believe that something good would come from it at the end. With that attack, Estoni...

China said that needs 'more Internet security' !

China should invest more in its own Internet security, lest it become a victim, or even scapegoat, for international hacking activities, an industry expert said on Tuesday. "Our current protection input is not enough, and the scale and size is far less intensive compared to that of Europe and the...

Hackers Expose EDL Members' Details Online, Group Urges Vigilance

A controversial anti-Islamist group has alerted its members to be vigilant after their details were disclosed online. Hackers, claiming to be from the Mujahideen Hacking Unit, infiltrated one of the organization's websites, releasing hundreds of names and addresses linked to the English Defense...